Structural Steel Erection WHS Manual

This is the structural steel erection edition of the WHS Manual. It has the same chapters as the general WHS Manual, written for steel erectors, riggers, crane and EWP crews and the businesses around them, so you only need one of the two. It follows a job from the engineer’s design and erection sequence through delivery, rigging and lifting, bolting, decking and site welding, and sets out the falls rules at 2 m, rigging and crane licences, the exclusion zones for overhead powerlines, dropped objects and the principal contractor’s WHS management plan, with the Steel Construction Advisory Standard 2004 named as the approved code. It points to the SWMS, plans, permits and registers in our range that match. The cover page is ready for your business name and logo. Part A is the management system, in 23 numbered chapters. Part B holds the full text of 74 policies and procedures (41 that apply to every business and 33 for structural steel erection work), each on its own pages in the same editable file, so you can edit, issue and sign off each one without buying it separately.

What Is Included In Our Structural Steel Erection WHS Manual?

• WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Duties and roles for erectors, riggers, doggers, crane and EWP operators and the verifier
• Erection sequence, temporary bracing and bolting by the engineer’s design
• Falls and edge protection at 2 m, work platforms, work boxes and rescue
• Rigging, dogging, crane and EWP licences, lift plans and lifting gear inspection
• Dropped objects, exclusion zones, hoardings and catch platforms
• Metal decking, safety mesh and leading edge work
• Site welding, gas cutting and hot work permits
• Overhead powerline exclusion zones and underground services
• Wind, storms and heat, with blank fields for the engineer’s and maker’s limits
• Welding fume, silica, asbestos in existing buildings, and incident notification
• A table of the SWMS, plans, permits and registers that fit steel erection
• Part B: the full text of 74 policies and procedures, from risk, hazard and incident management to manual handling, hazardous substances, emergencies and return to work, plus 33 for structural steel erection work

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): the meaning of reasonably practicable (s 18), our primary duty of care (s 19), duties of persons who manage or control a workplace (s 20), codes of practice (ss 26A, 274 and 275), duties of officers (s 27), duties of workers and others (ss 28 and 29), offences and penalties (ss 31 to 34D), notifiable incidents (ss 35 to 39), consultation (ss 46 to 49), health and safety representatives and committees (pt 5), the right to cease unsafe work (ss 84 to 86), discriminatory conduct (ss 104 to 106), inspectors and notices, entry by WHS entry permit holders (ss 117 to 121), and no levy on workers (s 273)
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 11 and 12), electrical work (s 18), electrical work licences (s 55) and the dictionary meanings of extra low voltage and low voltage
• Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991 (Qld): the licensing of building contractors, including structural steel erection for reward
• Building Act 1975 (Qld)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 (Qld): claims and the employer’s injury report (ss 131 and 133), rehabilitation and return to work (ss 226 to 232), and the protection of injured workers (ss 232A to 232G)
• Heavy Vehicle National Law Act 2012 (Qld), which applies the Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland): the meaning of heavy vehicle (s 6) and driving a heavy vehicle impaired by fatigue (s 228)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 (Qld): driving under the influence of liquor or a drug (s 79)
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) and Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): managing risks (ss 32 to 38), information, training and instruction (s 39), facilities, first aid, emergency plans and personal protective equipment (ss 40 to 47), remote or isolated work (s 48), airborne contaminants and flammable material (ss 49, 50 and 53), falling objects (ss 54 and 55), psychosocial risks (ss 55A to 55H), noise (ss 56 to 59), hazardous manual tasks (ss 60 and 61), falls (ss 78 to 80), high risk work licences (ss 81 to 85 and sch 3), plant (chapter 5) including plant that lifts (ss 219 and 220), construction work (chapter 6) including high risk construction work, SWMS, the principal contractor and the WHS management plan (ss 289 to 315), falls in construction work (ss 306A to 306Q), falling objects in construction work (ss 315B to 315M), general construction induction training (ss 316 and 317), hazardous chemicals (chapter 7), asbestos (chapter 8), crystalline silica (chapter 8A), and the dictionary (sch 19)
• Work Health and Safety (Codes of Practice) Notice 2022 (Qld): the list of approved codes of practice
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead and underground electric lines and the exclusion zones in schedule 2 (ss 10 to 15), and notifying serious electrical incidents and dangerous electrical events (ss 292 and 296)
• Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Regulation 2025 (Qld): the criteria for appointing a return to work coordinator (s 149)
• Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (Qld): evacuation routes (s 7)
• Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (Qld)
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Road Rules) Regulation 2009 (Qld), the Queensland Road Rules
• 17 Queensland approved codes of practice, named in full in the manual

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word manual (about 510 pages), A4 portrait, with a cover page ready for your business name and logo, a contents list, Part A (23 numbered chapters) and Part B (74 policies and procedures)
• Business details and document control typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• A WHS policy statement with an approval sign-off
• Roles, procedures, a risk matrix, record-keeping periods, definitions and references
• Part B: the full text of 74 policies and procedures, each starting on a new page
• Links by name to the matching SWMS, forms and registers in our range

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.