The purpose of this project is to assess your ability to participate in preparing a safe work method statement (SWMS) for high risk work hazards on construction sites as specified in work health and safety (WHS) legislation.
Part 1: Prepare and implement SWMS
For this task, you are required to: develop, in consultation with relevant personnel, two Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) for high-risk work. Each SWMS should be for a different job task and on a different work site, allocated by your Assessor.
Prior to commencing each work task, you must revise each SWMS, identify changed conditions and where appropriate, amend the SWMS to reflect changed hazards and risk control strategies.
All work must be performed to the standard required in the workplace and must meet the requirements of work health and safety (WHS), the National Construction Code (NCC), Australian Standards, Commonwealth and state or territory legislation, manufacturers specifications, and environmental plans and obligations.
Part 1: Prepare and implement SWMS
- Review requirements of work health and safety legislation for preparation of safe work method statements (SWMS).
- Determine work site conditions and job task requirements.
- Determine and record high-risk work site and task hazards relevant to job task.
- Break job task into logical steps, determine tools, equipment and materials to be used for each step, and record on SWMS.
- Identify high-risk work site and task-related hazards and levels of risk relating to each step, and record on SWMS.
- Apply hierarchy of controls to determine risk control strategies for each high-risk hazard in each step of the job task, discuss and confirm with relevant personnel, and record on SWMS.
- Review work site and job task immediately before starting work and discuss SWMS with relevant personnel to confirm as still applicable, or to amend as required.
- Submit safe work method statement (x2)
Part 1 Complete the following:
Submit revised safe work method statements (x2)
Part 1: Safe work method statement
- Attach two completed SWMS to this section of your Assessment Workbook, labelled as Unit Code and title> Task 3.1 Part 1> SWMS> your name and date.
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- Attach two revised SWMS to this section of your Assessment Workbook, labelled as Unit Code and title> Task 3.1 Part 2> Revised SWMS> your name and date.

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