Whsmp · OPW16/0021

                                                                                    SWMS:15 – Work at Heights (General)

Safe Work Methods
                                                                                          H                                                                        Responsible      Residual
                                                                                                                 Controls / Work Methods
                                                                                          O                                                                       Person/s for        Risk
            Job Steps                      Potential Hazards            L   C       R                    1. Eliminate 2. Substitute 3. Isolate 4. Engineer
                                                                                          C                                                                         Monitor &      L C R
                                                                                                                          5. Admin 6. PPE                            Review
Planning and undertaking general       Failure to identify a suitable   B   5   E                No work at heights is to be carried out on site unless one     Hutchinson        E    5      H
work at heights activities             means of access and / or                 24                of the following control measures (in order of their           Builders Site                 15
                                       working at height - falls                                  preferred use) is adopted:                                     Foreman
                                       from height                                        3       a. the erection of physical barriers (such as guardrails and
                                                                                                     scaffolding),                                               Workers
                                                                                                   b. providing a personal fall protection system (fall-arrest
                                                                                          4           harness system or travel restraint system), or
                                                                                                   c. providing a catch system (e.g. fall arresting platform,
                                                                                                      catch net etc).
                                                                                          4
                                                                                                   d. providing an exclusion zone
                                                                                          3
Accessing and working at height in     Falls from height                B   5   E         4      A suitable means of access to areas at height is to be Hutchinson                E    5      H
areas protected by physical                                                     24                provided and used (e.g. appropriately placed / secured Builders Site                         15
barriers - hand rails or guard rails                                                              ladder, stairs, EWP etc.                               Foreman
                                                                                                 Workers are not to access any area(s) where edge
                                                                                          1       protection has not been erected or where any other fall        Workers
                                                                                                  hazard may exist.

                                                                                          1      Under no circumstances are workers to climb on or
                                                                                                  otherwise position themselves where they are at risk of
                                                                                                  falling onto and / or over protected edges.
                                       Falling objects                  C   4   E         4       Where there is a risk of objects falling onto workers /       Hutchinson        D    4      H
                                                                                18                 persons below, a suitable means of restraining tools,         Builders Site                 14
                                                                                                   equipment and any other materials is to be used (e.g.         Foreman
                                                                                                   lanyards / wrist straps, toe boards (min 150mm high) etc).
                                                                                                  Exclusion zone(s) to be established below (where              Workers
                                                                                          3        relevant).
                                                                                                  Tools, equipment and any other objects / materials are not
                                                                                          1        to be positioned where they could fall.


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