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Underpinning SWMS

This SWMS covers underpinning work from reviewing the engineered design and preparing the site through excavation, installation, concrete work, backfilling and handover.

Activities covered include

  • Review the engineered underpinning design and work sequence
  • Excavate underpinning pins and prepare footing interfaces
  • Repeat pins, backfill, reinstate and complete handover

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Product Overview

This SWMS covers underpinning work from reviewing the engineered design and preparing the site through excavation, installation, concrete work, backfilling and handover. It supports planning for structural movement, excavation, services, plant, temporary supports and load-transfer risks.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Review the engineered underpinning design and work sequence
  • Set up the site and establish exclusion zones
  • Locate and isolate underground services
  • Position plant and materials around excavation areas
  • Install temporary structural supports
  • Excavate underpinning pins and prepare footing interfaces
  • Install reinforcement and formwork
  • Place concrete and grout
  • Cure concrete and transfer loads in the approved sequence
  • Repeat pins, backfill, reinstate and complete handover

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out underpinning work.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Review engineered underpinning design
  • Unexpected structural collapse
  • Incorrect underpinning sequence
  • Existing footing failure
  • Unidentified asbestos materials
  • Inadequate temporary support
Establish site and exclusion zones
  • Unauthorised entry
  • Public exposure to excavation
  • Vehicle collision
  • Slips and trips
  • Falling objects
Locate and isolate services
  • Underground service strike
  • Electric shock
  • Gas release
  • Water inundation
  • Service-related fire
Position plant and materials
  • Plant roll-over
  • Excavation edge collapse
  • Crush from plant movement
  • Swinging load
  • Overloading ground
Install temporary structural supports
  • Collapse of existing structure
  • Crush from prop failure
  • Falling masonry
  • Stored load release
  • Unplanned structural movement
Excavate underpinning pins
  • Excavation collapse
  • Foundation undermining
  • Worker engulfment
  • Fall into excavation
  • Water ingress
  • Plant strike
Prepare existing footing interface
  • Masonry collapse
  • Silica dust
  • Flying fragments
  • Hand tool injuries
  • Manual handling strain
Install reinforcement and formwork
  • Impaling reinforcement
  • Formwork failure
  • Crush from lifted materials
  • Hand injuries
  • Manual handling strain
Place concrete and grout
  • Formwork blow-out
  • Concrete burns
  • Hose whip
  • Structural overload
  • Slips from wet concrete
  • Electrical shock
Cure concrete and transfer loads
  • Premature load transfer
  • Structural collapse
  • Prop release
  • Concrete damage
  • Unplanned settlement
Repeat approved pin sequence
  • Cumulative structural movement
  • Sequence error
  • Excavation collapse
  • Worker fatigue
  • Temporary works interference
Backfill and reinstate area
  • Damage to underpinning
  • Plant strike
  • Dust exposure
  • Compactor vibration
  • Settlement
Demobilise and complete handover
  • Residual excavation hazards
  • Unremoved temporary works
  • Waste handling injuries
  • Incomplete records
  • Unauthorised re-entry

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Legislation & References

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

  • Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth), ss 19, 46-49: primary duty of care and consultation requirements.
  • Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth), rr 34-38: identify hazards, manage risks using the hierarchy of controls, maintain and review controls.
  • Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth), rr 291 and 299-300: high risk construction work and preparation, implementation and review of SWMS.
  • Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth), rr 305-306: excavation risk controls, securing trenches and preventing ground collapse.
  • Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (Cth), rr 203, 213-214: management, inspection and operation of plant and powered mobile plant.
  • Excavation Work Code of Practice: use engineered shoring, shielding, benching or battering where collapse is possible; use a competent person and secure excavations.
  • Demolition Work Code of Practice: temporary shoring supports excavation faces and weakened existing structures; maintain structural stability throughout the work.
  • AS 4744.1:2010 Steel shoring and trench lining equipment.
  • AS 3610.1:2018 Formwork for concrete.
  • AS/NZS 3012:2019 Electrical installations—Construction and demolition sites.
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 ConstructionCivil Construction and Earthworks

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