Concrete Sealer Sprayer SWMS

For concrete sealing and floor coating contractors and builders using a hand-pumped or battery pressure sprayer on slabs, driveways and floors. It covers the job from reading the SDS and setting up ventilation through surface preparation, spraying and curing to clean-up.

A SWMS is required under s 299 of the WHS Regulation when the work is high risk construction work, for example in an area that may have a flammable or contaminated atmosphere (including one with silica dust), with a fall risk over 2 m, or near energised services; otherwise this works as a written safe work procedure or task risk assessment.

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What is covered in our concrete sealer sprayer SWMS template?

After the standard pre-start checks, the job steps run from “Plan the work: product, SDS and weather” to “Clean up, dispose of waste and pack up”. The hazards and controls include:

• Solvent vapour and overspray inhalation
• Fire or explosion from flammable vapour
• Silica dust from grinding or cutting concrete
• Chemical burns from sealer, etch and degreaser
• Pressurised sprayer or hose failure
• Spills and leaks from stored containers
• Manual handling of pails and drums
• Noise from grinders and vacuums
• Slips on wet or freshly sealed surfaces
• Heat illness wearing a respirator
• Overspray reaching people and drains
• Fire from solvent-soaked rags

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 that may have a contaminated or flammable atmosphere

Licences, training and competency

• General construction induction training card (white card) for construction work
• Site induction
• Training in the hazards of the sealer, its SDS and the safe use of the pressure sprayer
• Training in fitting, using and maintaining respirators, with a fit test for each respirator user, repeated at least yearly and when the make or model changes (as the approved silica code recommends)
• Training in using an air-supplied respirator, where the sealer’s SDS or the product type calls for one
• Crystalline silica training (VET accredited course or regulator-approved training) for workers involved in, or exposed to, high risk silica processing such as grinding or cutting concrete

Legislation and codes of practice referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Spray Painting and Powder Coating Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Labelling of Workplace Hazardous Chemicals Code of Practice 2021
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Work Environment and Facilities Code of Practice 2021
• Confined Spaces Code of Practice 2021 (if the area turns out to be a confined space)
• First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): construction electrical equipment (s 140) for fans and leads

What you get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (15 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
• 10 job steps for this work, each with its hazards, controls, initial and residual risk scores and the person responsible
• PPE listed for this job: half-face or full-face respirator with a combined organic vapour and particulate filter matched to the SDS
• Emergency arrangements for: sealer in the eyes or on skin, dizziness, nausea or collapse from fumes and fire
• 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.