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If you’re in the construction or trade industry, you already know that safety is a top priority. With our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Steel Stud and Track Installation, managing safety processes has never been easier. This template aims to help you keep your projects organised and compliant, while making your life just a tad simpler.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our SWMS template comes pre-filled with industry-standard procedures and guidelines related to steel stud and track installation, saving you time and ensuring comprehensive coverage of relevant details.
- Fully editable and customisable in Microsoft Word format: Tailor the document to suit your specific project needs. Adjust text, headings, and other elements effortlessly with Microsoft Word—let’s make editing as easy as ABC!
- Includes the scope of the project and the project details: Clearly define what the project involves and provide detailed descriptions. This section helps ensure that all team members are on the same page right from the start.
- Includes checklist of any high risk machinery on site: Identify all high-risk machinery and equipment, keeping your site personnel aware and cautious around potential hazards.
- Includes space for recording any staff training: Document necessary training sessions your staff must complete, providing a quick-reference record to confirm everyone meets required qualifications.
- Includes before and after risk ratings: Evaluate the risks involved at different stages by assigning risk ratings pre- and post-control measures, helping you monitor effectiveness.
- Includes resources for use of legislative references: Point out the specific legislative guidelines applicable to your project, serving as handy resources for team members to refer back to, ensuring everyone stays compliant with regulations.
- Includes all PPE required: List down all Personal Protective Equipment necessary, aiding in safeguarding your workforce from injuries and accidents.
- Includes risk assessment and risk assessment matrix: Effectively analyse possible risks with a structured approach using a built-in risk assessment and matrix. Good decisions come from good data!
- Includes a checklist to ensure all requirements have been covered when implementing the SWMS: A comprehensive checklist ensures that no detail gets overlooked during implementation, lending you an extra pair of eyes.
- Includes sign off page for all workers and responsible persons: Obtain verification signatures from participating employees and supervisors, reinforcing accountability throughout the team.
- Easy to use, easy to customise: User-friendly design allows tradespeople to hit the ground running without wading through confusing jargon or complicated layouts.
- Suitable for large contracts and Tenders, including tier 1 contractual work: Designed not just for the small jobs; this template scales up beautifully, supporting more complex projects and contractual obligations.
- Quick delivery by email: Download your digital copy straight away. Who doesn’t love fast service? Get started promptly without the wait.
This SWMS template is intended to make your project management tasks less daunting and more efficient. While it’s here to support your safety initiatives, always remember it’s crucial to adapt each element according to the unique needs of your situation.
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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 Steel Stud and Track Installation Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) references:
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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.
