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Introducing the Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Workplace Safety Inspections and Reporting, designed to help you streamline safety processes on site with ease and efficiency.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: This template comes pre-filled with extensive information that covers the usual suspects you’ve got to consider during workplace safety inspections. This is not a one-size fits all, but rather a helpful guide to kick things off, making sure you’re off to a good start in safeguarding your workers.
- Fully Editable and Customisable in Microsoft Word Format: We’ve kept it simple; our SWMS template is available in a Microsoft Word format. You can tweak and tailor as much as you like. Got a particularity unique project? No worries, customise sections to fit your needs without having to start from scratch.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details: Clear and concise placeholders make inputting project specifics and overall scope a breeze. Document your work environment details, ensuring all bases are covered before starting your project.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery on Site: Keeping track of every piece of equipment that could pose a risk is crucial. Our comprehensive checklist helps you identify high-risk machinery, keeping safety a top priority.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Safe practices stem from well-trained workers. Our template provides an area to record staff training sessions, ensuring everyone on-site is up-to-date with necessary skills and knowledge.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Capture risk levels before implementing control measures and compare these ratings against those calculated after controls are in place. There’s nothing quite like seeing improvement right there on paper.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: Featuring resources for legislative material ensures your SWMS aligns with current Australian standards and regulations. Conformity shouldn’t be a guessing game!
- Includes All PPE Required: From hard hats to steel-capped boots, our template includes sections where you can list all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) specific to your site’s operations.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Conduct thorough risk assessments with the embedded matrix, aiding in the evaluation and prioritisation of risks so you can focus on what’s important.
- Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Rest easy knowing each requirement has been addressed with our streamlined checklist—keeping you on track and compliant.
- Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Foster accountability by utilising the sign-off page which documents acknowledgment and agreement from each worker and key personnel regarding the SWMS plan, providing an essential layer of responsibility and communication.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: User friendliness is at the core of our template design, making it straightforward for anyone to adapt and use, no matter their experience level.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Whether you’re dealing with big contracts or tier 1 projects, our template offers a robust framework to help meet contractual safety requirements efficiently.
- Quick Delivery by Email: We know time is of the essence, which is why receiving the template directly via email makes for hassle-free distribution and immediate use whenever needed.
Our SWMS Template is here to aid in creating a safer workplace. Easy to follow and implement, it’s crafted to guide you through the essentials of workplace safety reporting. Remember, while this template serves as a guide, always ensure it’s tailored to your specific site needs for utmost effectiveness.
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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 Workplace Safety Inspections and Reporting 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.
