Traffic Control SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers the planning, installation, operation, monitoring and removal of traffic controls. It supports the identification and management of risks associated with traffic, pedestrians, cyclists, plant movements, changing conditions and emergency events.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan traffic controls and review the proposed traffic layout and public exposure.
• Conduct site induction and communicate work-zone arrangements.
• Inspect signs, warning devices, lighting and other traffic equipment.
• Arrive, position vehicles and manage roadside clearance and reversing risks.
• Install advance warning signs and establish the work zone.
• Control live traffic and manage conflicting directions or communication loss.
• Manage pedestrians and cyclists around the work area.
• Coordinate plant movements and separation from people and traffic.
• Monitor visibility, weather, road conditions and traffic queues.
• Respond to traffic incidents, injuries, fires, spills and emergency access needs.
• Remove traffic controls while managing traffic exposure and remaining hazards.

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out traffic control activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

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 (guidance only unless adopted or otherwise given legal effect in the relevant jurisdiction); it identifies work on or adjacent to a traffic corridor in use by non-pedestrian traffic as high risk construction work.
• Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks (guidance only unless adopted or otherwise given legal effect in the relevant jurisdiction).
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace (guidance only unless adopted or otherwise given legal effect in the relevant jurisdiction); maintain and review controls where conditions change.
• Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice 2008, where adopted or applicable in the relevant jurisdiction; prepare site-specific traffic arrangements and SWMS for construction traffic-control work.
• AS 1742.3 Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Part 3: Traffic control for works on roads, and relevant state or territory road authority supplements.
• AS/NZS 1906.4 Retroreflective materials and devices for road traffic control purposes.
• AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments.
• AS 2210.3 Personal protective equipment—Safety footwear.
• AS/NZS 1270 Acoustics—Hearing protectors.
• Applicable road-management, rail-safety and local-government requirements for work affecting public roads, road-related areas, rail corridors, footpaths or cycleways.

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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