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Introducing our Safe Work Method Statement Template for Semi-truck Trailer Operations – your practical tool in promoting workplace health and safety. While we don’t claim to offer magic solutions, this resource is designed to help guide you towards a safer work environment.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Comes with essential details already filled in, providing a solid foundation to work from. This helps save time and ensures that you don’t miss out on key information related to semi-truck trailer tasks.
- Fully Editable and Customisable: Available in Microsoft Word format, the template gives you the flexibility to tailor it according to your project’s needs. You can easily adapt the content to suit specific circumstances or changes to procedures.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and Project Details: Clearly lays out the extent of the tasks at hand, ensuring everyone understands their responsibilities and the overall direction of the project.
- Checklist of Any High Risk Machinery on Site: Provides a ready-made list to track all high-risk machinery involved in the operation. This feature supports ongoing monitoring of equipment and enhances on-site safety awareness.
- Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Prompts documentation of any training sessions conducted, fostering an organised record-keeping system which aids in compliance and staff development.
- Before and After Risk Ratings: Offers spaces to note down risk assessments before and after implementing control measures, thus highlighting the effectiveness of your safety strategies.
- Resources for Use of Legislative References: Includes handy links and references to legislation pertinent to your industry, helping ensure your operations are aligned with current legal requirements.
- All PPE Required: Lists personal protective equipment (PPE) necessary for the tasks, helping to keep workers adequately protected when carrying out their duties.
- Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Built-in templates facilitate comprehensive risk assessment activities, allowing you to understand and manage potential hazards systematically.
- Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered: A thorough checklist acts as a final review step, ensuring no detail is overlooked when putting your SWMS into action.
- Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Encourages accountability by including a space where all participants can acknowledge their roles and consent to the outlined safety measures.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: Designed with user-friendly navigation, making it straightforward to make adjustments without getting lost in complex processes.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Adaptable for a variety of project sizes and complexities, giving you a reliable framework whether you’re handling tier 1 projects or smaller contracts.
- Quick Delivery by Email: We offer expedient delivery via email, ensuring you receive the product promptly and can start customising at your earliest convenience.
While this template doesn’t promise to cover every unforeseen event, it’s structured to support your existing safety practices. For tradespeople aiming for enhanced safety protocols, this might just be the toolbox addition you’ve been looking for.
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Each Safe Work Method Statement has specific content that is referenced to, but not limited to a number of authorities such as Codes of Practice, Regulations, Australian Standards or the Act.
The Semi-truck Trailer Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) references:
Ordering only takes a few minutes. Upon ordering completion, a link will be sent to your email address to download your documents, then add your company logo to the top of the header and you’re finished.
Frequent Questions
Safe Work Method Statement Template FAQ’s
What format is a BlueSafe Australia Safe Work Method Statement Template delivered in?
Because every SWMS needs to be edited to suit on-site specifics, it makes sense to deliver our Safe Work Method Statements in Microsoft Word Format for easy editing.
How many pages long is each Safe Work Method Statement Template?
It depends entirely on the nature of the risks associated with the SWMS Template, however on average the documents are between 7-15 pages in length. Each Safe Work Method Statement is comprehensive in nature and is easy to use.
What are before and after risk ratings?
Before and after risk ratings are simply this: When you initially start to do a job, like say drill a hole in a wall, there will be a level of risk, which for this example let's just say is a level 2 (before). The idea is that then you would implement some type of control measure to reduce the risk, and in this case we would implement the control measure of wearing safety glasses to protect the eyes. This now would bring the risk of an injury down to a level 1 (after). Here you can see how the SWMS has a before and after risk rating for each step of a job, task or process.
Why do the Safe Work Method Statement Templates have before and after risk ratings?
Before and after risk ratings are a simple and effective way to clearly show how, and how much a certain level of risk has been brought down for a certain step in a job task or process. Another reason also is that many larger contractors now like to see before and after risk ratings, so it makes sense to include them in our Templates.
Are the SWMS Templates pre-filled?
Absolutely. Every Safe Work Method Statement Template is pre-filled, high quality and comprehensive in order to help save you as much time, and deliver as much quality information as possible when conducting your own on site safety.
Do the Safe Work Method Statement Templates come with a Risk Assessment?
Yes. Each Safe Work Method Statement comes with it's own built in Risk Assessment which is part of the working document. The SWMS is straightforward, easy to use and has a risk calculator to work out the risk level and likelihood of the risk occurring.
Does each SWMS Template have the required PPE already suggested?
Yes, each SWMS Template has a range of PPE recorded, as well as picture icons of different PPE items that you can add/remove as you need to for the requirements of the job task.
What Should be Included in a Safe Work Method Statement?
If you're going to be doing any high risk construction work, you'll most likely not only need a Safe Work Method Statement, but you'll also need to make sure your SWMS has a number of checks and balances in order for the document to be accepted in your construction site safety. Purchasing a safe work method statement template can help save you quite a lot of time rather than starting from scratch. Also, just remember that even though every BlueSafe Template is highly comprehensive and pre-filled, your SWMS Template should be adjusted to suit any noticeable risks that are specific to the task you are performing.
Your Safe Work Method Statement must:
- List or show the different types of construction work that is high risk
- Clearly explain the workplace health and safety hazards as well as the risks that arise from the works
- Explain in detail how each risk will be managed, maintained and controlled
- Explain how each control measure will be implemented in order to reduce each risk
- Describe how each control measure will be monitored an how often the control measures will be reviewed
- Consider any additional factors that may impact the level of risk involved with the safety of the construction site such as weather, wind etc.
- Be made available and accessible to read by employees and applicable personnel at any time.
- Every SWMS should be easy to understand and written in plain language
- Every BlueSafe Australia Safe Work Method Statement Template is straightforward and easy to use. They also have what's called 'before and after risk ratings', which basically means there's a built in risk assessment that is used in the process of using the document. This allows you to asses the initial risks and give them a score, and then assess the risk and give an 'after score' once the listed control measures are implemented. All our documents are comprehensive, pre-filled and easy to use. You can even download a sample below and see an example.
