Render Spray Machine SWMS

For plasterers, renderers and builders who spray cement or acrylic render with a pump and spray gun. It follows the work in order, from checking hoses and couplings and setting up the machine to scaffold access, spraying, clearing blockages and washout.

Render is often sprayed from a scaffold, so the fall of more than 2 metres item is ticked; untick it for low-level work. Spraying premixed wet render is not silica processing, but if you will dry cut, grind or sand the cured render, also tick the contaminated or flammable atmosphere item (WHS Regulation s 291(l), item 11). A SWMS is required by law for high risk construction work (s 299).

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What Is Covered In Our Render Spray Machine SWMS?

The job steps run in the order the work is done, from pre-start checks to finishing up. The hazards and controls include:

• Hose whip and burst under pressure
• High-pressure injection injuries from the nozzle
• Caustic cement burns to skin and eyes
• Silica-containing dust from bags and mixing
• Falls from scaffold and work platforms
• Falling objects striking people below
• Accidental restart while clearing blockages
• Overhead power lines near the scaffold
• Noise from pumps and compressors
• Overspray affecting neighbours and the public

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:

• Involves a risk of a person falling more than 2m

Licences, Training and Competency

• General construction induction training card (white card)
• Site induction
• Training and competency in the render spray machine, pump and nozzle, from the supplier or an experienced operator
• Crystalline silica training where the silica assessment finds the processing high risk (WHS Regulation s 529CD), with records kept
• Respirator fit testing for every worker who wears a tight-fitting respirator
• High risk work licence in a scaffolding class (Schedule 3) for anyone erecting scaffolding from which a person or thing could fall more than 4 m; other scaffolding erected by a competent person
• First aider on site

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• WHS Regulation Chapter 8A: Crystalline silica (ss 529B-529CD)
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Scaffolding Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (13 pages), laid out on A4 landscape pages
• Business, client, job and document details typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• The high risk construction work checklist, worded as WHS Regulation s 291, and the construction project question (s 292)
• A worker and health and safety representative consultation record
• Qualifications, plant, PPE, hazardous chemicals, safety equipment, permits, references and emergency arrangements filled in for this work
• A 5 x 5 risk matrix, and job steps with initial and residual risk scores and the people responsible
• Implementing, monitoring and review requirements, an additional controls log, revision history and a worker sign-on sheet

Review and adjust it for your site, your plant and the way your crew does the job, and talk it through with your workers before work starts. If you have any trouble downloading this SWMS, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading this SWMS.