Overhead Power Lines Risk Assessment
Editable Word overhead powerline risk assessment for Queensland: scored worked rows for plant, people on foot, scaffolds, vehicles, unknown lines, contact and underground cables, with controls in the order the Regulation sets.
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Written by Ryan Graham, health and safety professional (16 years on Queensland sites)
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About this template
Complete this risk assessment before work starts near an overhead electric line, and again when the site, the plant or the task changes. The Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 makes keeping out of the exclusion zone the first duty and the risk assessment the fallback, so each worked row starts with elimination. Seven worked rows show how to score the main hazards, and blank rows are ready for your own.
What is included in our overhead powerline risk assessment?
- Assessment details and the five by five risk matrix
- Plant and loads near lines, with the exclusion zone lookup
- People on foot and conductive objects
- Scaffolds, platforms and ladders
- Vehicles, tipping and high loads
- Unknown lines, sag, sway and tiger tails as a visual warning only
- Contact with a line and the emergency steps
- Notification and keeping the site undisturbed
- Underground electric lines on the same site
- Blank rows, review record and sign-off
Legislation and codes of practice referenced
- Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): ss 10 to 15, 292 and 296 and sch 2
- Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): ss 34 to 38, 42, 43, 291 and 304
- Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld): ss 35 to 39
- Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2020 – Working near overhead and underground electric lines (Qld)
What you get
- An editable Microsoft Word risk assessment (7 pages), A4 landscape
- Assessment details, a 5 x 5 risk matrix and the hierarchy of controls
- Worked hazard rows with initial and residual risk scores, plus blank rows
- Review record, sign-off and document control
- Business details typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers.
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Is it compliant with Queensland law?
It's written around Queensland's Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Regulation 2011. Tailor it to your site, consult your workers and review it whenever conditions change; no template can guarantee compliance on its own.
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