Car Park Bollard, Wheel Stop and Speed Hump Installation SWMS

Suits civil, line-marking, fencing and maintenance contractors who install fixed and removable bollards, wheel stops and speed humps in live car parks and driveways. It covers scanning the slab, core drilling and anchors, concrete cutting dust, vehicles and pedestrians, and services under the slab.

Installing bollards, wheel stops and speed humps is construction work (WHS Regulation s 289(1) and (2)(a)). The vehicle aisles, ramps and entries of a live car park are a traffic corridor in use by traffic other than pedestrians, so work in or adjacent to them (s 291(n)) is ticked; untick it where the work area is closed to all vehicles. Tick the other items the job involves: movement of powered mobile plant such as a forklift or loader in the work area (s 291(o)), a fall of more than 2 metres at an open ramp or deck edge, and energised electrical installations or services.

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What Is Covered In Our Car Park Bollard, Wheel Stop and Speed Hump Installation SWMS?

After the standard pre-start checks, the job steps run from “Plan the job with the owner and the car park users” to “Reinstate, clear the site and open the area”. The hazards and controls include:

• Vehicles striking workers in a live car park
• Pedestrians entering the work zone
• Reversing and turning vehicles
• Striking underground services and tendons
• Post-tensioned slab coring and drilling
• Core drill rig kickback and tipping
• Silica dust from cutting and drilling concrete
• Water, slurry and electrical equipment
• Heavy bollards and hump modules
• Resin, adhesive and wet concrete
• Noise and fumes in basements
• Open holes and new fixings left in service

High Risk Construction Work

These high risk construction work items (WHS Regulation 2011 (Qld) s 291) are already ticked because they are part of this work. Tick any others that apply to your job:

• Is carried out on, in or adjacent to a road, railway, shipping lane or other traffic corridor that is in use by traffic other than pedestrians

Licences, Training and Competency

• General construction induction training card (white card)
• Operator of the core drill rig, anchor tools and any powered mobile plant verified as competent (Schedule 3 of the WHS Regulation has no licence class for core drills, loaders or skid steers)
• Trained operator for the cable and pipe locator and concrete scanner, or the scanning contractor, with results given to the crew before drilling
• High risk work licence, forklift truck class, for anyone operating a forklift truck to move bollards or pallets (Schedule 3 item 24)
• Licensed electrical worker for any lighting, sensor or power connection in or to a bollard, barrier or the slab (Electrical Safety Act 2002 s 55)
• Crystalline silica training where the silica assessment finds the cutting or drilling high risk (WHS Regulation s 529CD), record kept
• Spotter or traffic marshal trained in the site traffic plan; accredited traffic controllers where work extends onto a public road (Transport Operations (Road Use Management – Accreditation and Other Provisions) Regulation 2015 ss 54 and 55)
• First aid certificate for the appointed first aider (WHS Regulation s 42)

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice 2008
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Excavation Work Code of Practice 2021
• First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld)
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): underground electric lines, ss 14 and 15
• Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2020 – Working near overhead and underground electric lines
• Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld): general environmental duty, s 319

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (14 A4 landscape pages). Type your business, client and job details once and they fill in on every page, with a space for your logo
• 9 job steps for this work, each with its hazards, controls, initial and residual risk scores and the person responsible
• PPE listed for this job: safety boots; high-visibility long-sleeve shirt and trousers; hard hat in covered car parks and where falling objects are possible
• Emergency arrangements for: vehicle enters the work area or a worker is struck, service struck by the core drill or anchor (power, gas or water) and tendon in a post-tensioned slab struck or cut
• Plus the parts every Work Safety QLD SWMS shares, from the s 291 checklist to the worker sign-on sheet (see the layout in our free SWMS template)

Adjust it for your site, plant and crew, and talk it through with your workers before work starts. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading this SWMS.

Checked against the Queensland laws and codes of practice listed above. Last reviewed November 2026.