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There is endless content out there to explain the “What” questions when it comes to SWMS, but not many address the “How”. In this article, we will introduce you to why the process you follow is important and how using a paper-based safety management system is a risky choice for workplace safety.
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A safety management system is crucial to putting your work health and safety plans, policies and procedures into practice on a day-to-day basis. Further, it serves as the main tool for preventing safety incidents in the future using data collected from your work activities day to day.
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Everybody knows how difficult it can be to use safe work method statements (SWMS’s). Seriously, they are a nightmare for many reasons. Firstly, if you don’t have a method statement for a specific construction work procedure, trying to develop one from scratch is time and resource intensive. Most manages from construction businesses will search online for safety templates free to download. The good news is that we have work method statement template free for you over here.
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Personal safety at work revolves around conducting consistent and compliant OHS procedures. This involves tools like proper signage, a clear safety procedure, training but for businesses, especially the small operators, this can be a drain on resources. Add on the cost of paperwork like a safe work method statement (SWMS), and then compliant OHS procedures become a serious consideration businesses need to make.
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In military speak, safe work method statements (SWMS) combined with risk assessments can be like enfilade fire from a defilade position. Pretty awesome if you can achieve them. SWMS are used to instruct safety procedures for known work place hazards and risks in construction. Risk assessments are used for identifying risks in the workplace and and can be used when a SWMS may not have been developed yet. We have some risk assessment and method statement free template downloads over here or you could read up some more on free swms templates.
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A Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is a set of work procedures that identify hazards and control measures with known tasks. It is a way to identify risks associated with a worksite and how best to manage them. SWMS must include the names of the people at the workplace, arrangements for the management of any incidents should they arise, health and safety rules specific to the worksite and ways to collect and review the document.
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Do you need a method statement free template? That’s good news and sounds like you are committing to making your workplace safe. We have plenty of method statement template free downloads for you to use. Yes, they are free! But what is the catch you ask?
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Running a construction business is a time consuming and costly task, so finding areas where efficiency can be improved is vital. Getting an affordable safety method statement complicates this but as technology develops so too to the options available to construction managers.
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Are you looking for a free SWMS template? We got you. You can download one on our resources page. This is the template that is found on page 42 of the Construction Work Code of Practice that was published by Safe Work Australia. So, this template is correct and will help with your safety in the work place, as it comes from the horses mouth.
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