Concrete Pumping SWMS

For concrete pumping contractors and the builders who engage them. It follows a real pour from site checks and pump set-up through pumping, blockages, truck deliveries and wash-out to stowing the boom and leaving site.

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What is covered in our concrete pumping SWMS template?

After the standard pre-start checks, the job steps run from “Check for overhead power lines and underground services” to “Stow the boom, pack up and leave site”. The hazards and controls include:

• Boom or hose contact with overhead power lines
• Pump truck tipping or an outrigger sinking
• Hose whip and end hose strikes
• Pipeline or coupling failure under pressure
• Blockages and released line pressure
• Agitator trucks reversing into workers
• Hands drawn into the hopper agitator
• Boom striking people or structures
• Wet concrete burns to skin and eyes
• Falls from slab and form edges
• Heat, wind, lightning and noise
• Exhaust fumes around the pump

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 in an area at a workplace in which there is any movement of powered mobile plant

Licences, training and competency

• High risk work licence for the concrete placing boom class for anyone operating a boom pump
• Verification of competency for the pump model and remote control used
• Training for line hands in hose handling, line pressure and clearing blockages, and for anyone who operates the blow-out cap valves
• Trained and competent spotter (safety observer) for overhead power line clearance and truck movements
• Driver licence for the class of vehicle driven (pump truck and agitator trucks)
• General construction induction training card (white card) when working on a construction site
• Site induction

Legislation and codes of practice referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Concrete Pumping Code of Practice 2019
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice 2008
• Hazardous Manual Tasks 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
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Work Environment and Facilities 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): overhead and underground electric line duties and Schedule 2 exclusion zones
• Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2020 – Working near overhead and underground electric lines

What you get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (18 pages), laid out on A4 landscape pages. Type your business, client and job details once and they fill in on every page, with a space for your logo
• 11 job steps for this work, each with its hazards, controls, initial and residual risk scores and the person responsible
• PPE listed for this job: hard hat; safety glasses or a face shield when cleaning out, clearing blockages or handling wet concrete; eye protection for the line hand at all times
• Emergency arrangements for: power line contact, hose whip or pipeline burst and person caught in the hopper or agitator
• 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.

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