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If you’re in the turf laying business, particularly with maxi rolls, you’ll want to keep safety high on your priority list. Enter our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template, designed to help you carefully navigate through safety requirements.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: This template comes stocked with detailed content that’s all about making your safety planning more manageable. It’s like a starter kit for your SWMS, tailored towards the turf laying industry.
- Fully editable and customisable in Microsoft Word format for easy editing: We know every project is different. That’s why this document is ready for you to tweak and align with your project’s particular needs, all in a format you’re already comfortable with—Microsoft Word.
- Includes the scope of the project and the project details: Set the scene by outlining what the project involves. Clearly lay out the specifics, so everyone knows what they’re diving into.
- Includes checklist of any high risk machinery on site: Identify and document machinery that needs careful handling. A simple tick-off list can remind and assure workers that attention is given where it’s needed most.
- Includes space for recording any staff training: Training is foundational to a safe work environment. Record who has been trained on what, ensuring accountability and awareness across your team.
- Includes before and after risk ratings: Keep track of how risks change, if at all, with pre-and post-mitigation references. This helps to stay informed and keeping vigilance throughout the project.
- Includes resources for use of legislative references: Stay sharp with easy-to-access regulatory information that helps your team comply without missing a beat.
- Includes all PPE required: Don’t let personal protective equipment be an afterthought. There’s space to list what gear is needed to keep your team secure on site.
- Includes risk assessment and risk assessment matrix: Sort out the big risks from the small ones, with a straightforward matrix that helps visualise danger zones and actions plans for mitigating them.
- Includes a checklist to ensure all requirements have been covered when implementing the SWMS: It’s the little bits and pieces that matter. Use our checklist to make sure there aren’t any gaps in your plan after implementation.
- Includes sign off page for all workers and responsible persons: Facilitating a safety culture also means affirming commitment. Use this segment to capture consenting acknowledgment from workers and stakeholders alike.
- Easy to use, easy to customise: Our template is not only straightforward but also quite modular, so adapting it to fit your individual turf laying projects is a breeze.
- Suitable for large contracts and Tenders, including tier 1 contractual work: No job too big; this template scales up beautifully, engineered for complexity as well as simplicity.
- Quick delivery by email: You won’t need to hang around waiting. Get it delivered straight to your inbox, fast and fuss-free.
Helping you keep your project rolling safely and efficiently one sheet of documentation at a time, because safety doesn’t have to be a hassle. For peace of mind, a smoother path to compliance, and just plain good practice, this is a tool worth having in your kit.
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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 Turf Laying Maxi Rolls 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.
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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.
