Perimeter Containment Screening Installation SWMS

For builders, formworkers, crane crews and screen installers who fit perimeter containment screening to slab edges and building faces. It follows the work in order, from planning the lift and checking power lines and wind to anchors, crane lifts, fixing at the edge, adjustments and handover. Scaffolds, safety nets and temporary edge protection need separate SWMS.

Work with a risk of a fall of more than 2 metres (WHS Regulation s 291(a)) is ticked for you, because screens are fitted at building edges where a person could fall that far, so a SWMS is required before the work starts (s 299). Tick the other items that apply on the form: the energised services item (s 291(k)) if an overhead line is close, the powered mobile plant item (s 291(o)) when a mobile crane, EWP or forklift moves in the work area, and the traffic corridor item (s 291(n)) if the work is beside a road or footpath in use. Rigging, dogging and crane lifting need the licences set out in the document.

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What Is Covered In Our Perimeter Containment Screening Installation SWMS?

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

• Falls from the slab edge while fitting
• Screens swinging or dropped during crane lifts
• Wind loading on large screens
• Objects falling on people below
• Gaps left in the screening
• Anchor and bracket failure
• Contact with overhead power lines
• Silica dust from drilling anchors
• Struck by delivery vehicles and plant
• Crush injuries pre-assembling frames
• Suspended worker rescue
• Components falling during extension

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) for construction work, and site induction
• High risk work licence for the basic rigging class, which covers rigging work on perimeter safety screens and shutters (Schedule 3 item 5(2)(f)), for anyone doing rigging work as Schedule 19 defines it
• High risk work licence for dogging work (Schedule 3 item 4) for slinging the loads, or for directing a crane operator when the load is out of the operator’s view
• High risk work licence for the class of crane used (mobile crane or tower crane class in Schedule 3)
• Scaffolding licence, intermediate class (Schedule 3 item 2(2)(e)), for scaffolding associated with perimeter safety screens and shutters; scaffolding work under Schedule 19 is erecting, altering or dismantling a temporary structure supporting a platform from which a person or object could fall more than 4 m. That work needs its own scaffold SWMS
• Boom-type EWP high risk work licence for a boom length of 11 m or more where an EWP is used
• Competent person to inspect, tag and approve the screens, brackets and anchorages
• Training in the fall protection system used (restraint or fall arrest) and in the rescue plan
• First aider and rescue-trained crew; CPR and first aid training

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): ss 306C to 306J (falls: edge protection, covers, travel restraint, fall arrest); ss 315B to 315M (falling objects, including perimeter containment screening in s 315I); s 54 (falling objects); s 60 (hazardous manual tasks); s 219 (plant that lifts)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): Schedule 3 (rigging, dogging, scaffolding and crane classes) and Schedule 19 (dogging, rigging work and scaffolding work)
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Scaffolding Code of Practice 2021 (section 2.5, perimeter containment screening)
• Formwork Code of Practice 2016 (perimeter containment screens and the perimeter screen handover checklist)
• Mobile Crane Code of Practice 2024
• Tower Crane Code of Practice 2017
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• 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): ss 10 to 13 and schedule 2 (exclusion zones for overhead electric lines)

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (14 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.