Whsmp · OPW16/0021

                                                                          SWMS:19 – Protecting Penetrations & Openings

Safe Work Methods
                                                                                                                                                            Responsible         Residual
                                                                                         H                    Controls / Work Methods
                                                                                                                                                            Person/s for          Risk
              Job Steps                        Potential Hazards           L   C    R    O            1. Eliminate 2. Substitute 3. Isolate 4. Engineer       Monitor &       L    C R
                                                                                         C                             5. Admin 6. PPE                         Review
                                                                          B    5     E    4     Where relevant/practicable, floor penetrations that      Hutchinson          E    5       H
Protecting penetrations / openings         Falls from height
                                                                                    24           are cast at the time of pour are to be protected with    Builders Site                    15
(e.g. bored piers, floor voids etc) with
                                                                                                 steel mesh inlay.                                        Foreman
suitable covers
                                                                                                Penetrations are to be immediately protected with a
                                                                                          4      fall protection cover that is:
                                                                                                 - able with withstand the impact and safety
                                                                                                      support of a fall onto it by any person,
                                                                                                      machinery or materials;
                                                                                                 - be securely fixed in place to prevent it being
                                                                                                      moved or removed accidentally; and
                                                                                                 - Clearly marked / signed to warn of the fall
                                                                                                      hazard.

                                                                                          5     Suitable controls are to be in place to ensure persons
                                                                                                 placing covers over a penetration / opening, are not
                                                                                                 exposed to a fall hazard. Such controls may include
                                                                                                 (where relevant):
                                                                                          4      - placing the cover over the penetration /
                                                                                                     opening as soon as possible and from a position
                                                                                                     where a fall is not likely to occur, or
                                                                                          4      - using a travel restraint system (refer – SWMS:
                                                                                                     20 “Personal Fall Protection”), or
                                                                                                 - Placement of cover whilst a fall arresting
                                                                                          4          platform is positioned adequately below the
                                                                                                     penetration.
                                                                                                Under no circumstances is a penetration to be left
                                                                                          1      unprotected for any period of time.
                                                                          C    4     E    3       Exclusion zone(s) is to be established below (where    Hutchinson          D    4       H
                                           Falling objects
                                                                                    18             relevant).                                             Builders Site                    14
                                                                                                  Tools, equipment and any other objects/ materials      Foreman
                                                                                          5        are not to be positioned where they could fall.
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