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Sports Court Construction SWMS

This SWMS covers planning, site preparation, construction, installation and handover activities for sports courts.

Activities covered include

  • Complete pre-start planning and set-out
  • Place and finish concrete
  • Inspect, clean and hand over the completed area

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Sports Court Construction SWMS
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Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning, site preparation, construction, installation and handover activities for sports courts. It supports planning and risk management for services, plant, excavation, concrete work, cutting, lifting, elevated work and site access.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Complete pre-start planning and set-out
  • Establish the site, access and delivery arrangements
  • Receive deliveries and manage plant movements
  • Locate services and excavate
  • Prepare the subgrade and base
  • Install formwork and reinforcement
  • Place and finish concrete
  • Cut joints and drill anchors
  • Install perimeter fencing
  • Lift and erect court enclosure components
  • Install turf, infill, lighting and power
  • Inspect, clean and hand over the completed area

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out sports court construction activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Pre-start planning and set-out
  • Incorrect design information
  • Unplanned service conflict
  • Heat stress
  • Unauthorised work changes
  • Poor worker consultation
Establish site and access
  • Unauthorised entry
  • Vehicle-pedestrian interaction
  • Slips and trips
  • Public exposure
  • Manual handling injuries
Receive deliveries and plant
  • Reversing vehicle strike
  • Plant roll-over
  • Falling materials
  • Crush from loads
  • Plant mechanical failure
Locate services and excavate
  • Underground services strike
  • Electric shock
  • Gas release
  • Trench collapse
  • Plant-person collision
  • Fall into excavation
Prepare subgrade and base
  • Plant collision
  • Dust exposure
  • Plant roll-over
  • Uneven ground
  • Noise
  • Manual handling injuries
Install formwork and reinforcement
  • Impaled on reinforcement
  • Formwork failure
  • Manual handling strain
  • Cuts from steel
  • Falls on uneven surfaces
  • Concrete pour blow-out
Place and finish concrete
  • Concrete hose whip
  • Crush from pump boom
  • Wet concrete burns
  • Vehicle strike
  • Slips on wet surface
  • Manual handling strain
  • Noise
Cut joints and drill anchors
  • Respirable crystalline silica
  • Flying particles
  • Kickback from saw
  • Noise
  • Electric shock
  • Trips from leads
Install perimeter fencing
  • Crush from posts
  • Cuts from mesh
  • Work at height
  • Plant collision
  • Stored energy in tensioned mesh
  • Manual handling strain
Lift padel court components
  • Crush from suspended load
  • Falling glass panels
  • Load shift
  • Crane overturning
  • Dropped lifting gear
  • Plant-person collision
  • Glass breakage
Erect padel enclosure
  • Fall over two metres
  • Falling objects
  • Structural instability
  • Glass panel failure
  • Crush between panels
  • EWP overturning
  • Hand injuries
Install turf and infill
  • Manual handling strain
  • Cuts from knives
  • Dust from infill
  • Adhesive exposure
  • Trips on loose turf
  • Heat stress
Install lighting and power
  • Electric shock
  • Arc flash
  • Underground cable strike
  • Falls from height
  • Falling objects
  • EWP collision
  • Temporary power failure
Inspect, clean and hand over
  • Residual defects
  • Trips and falls
  • Waste handling injuries
  • Unauthorised use
  • Plant collision
  • Sharp waste

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Legislation & References

The template includes references relevant to the documented work, including:

  • Applicable Commonwealth, state or territory WHS/OHS legislation and regulations.
  • Model Code of Practice: Construction Work; confirm adoption and legal status in the relevant jurisdiction.
  • Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks; apply hazard identification, consultation, hierarchy of controls and review.
  • Model Code of Practice: Excavation Work; applicable to service location, excavation, plant selection and traffic management.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Electrical Risks in the Workplace.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Falls at Workplaces.
  • Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace.
  • Managing Respirable Crystalline Silica Dust Exposure in Construction and Manufacturing of Construction Elements Code of Practice 2022; respirable crystalline silica exposure is identified as high risk construction work under model WHS Regulations.
  • Concrete Pumping Code of Practice 2019 where concrete pumping is used.
  • Guidance standards: AS/NZS 3000 Electrical installations; AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations—construction and demolition sites; AS 2550 series Cranes; AS 1418 series Cranes, hoists and winches; AS/NZS 1576 Scaffolding; AS 2550.10 Elevating work platforms; AS/NZS 1891 Industrial fall-arrest systems; AS/NZS 2208 Safety glazing materials; AS 4100 Steel structures; AS 3600 Concrete structures; AS 3798 Earthworks; AS 1742.3 Traffic control devices for works on roads; AS 2397 Safe use of lasers in the building and construction industry.

Standard SWMS Features (Click to Expand)
  • Task-specific job steps, hazards and control measures
  • Initial and residual risk ratings
  • Assigned responsible persons for each job step
  • Plant, equipment and PPE requirements where applicable
  • Permits, qualifications and high-risk construction work details where applicable
  • Worker consultation, sign-off and review sections

Suitable for Industries

Building and ConstructionLandscaping ContractorsCivil Construction and EarthworksConcrete and Formwork

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