Post-Installed Anchor Drilling and Fixing SWMS

For builders, fixers, installers and maintenance crews who drill and set mechanical and chemical anchors in concrete and masonry. The job steps run from anchor planning and scanning for reinforcement and services through drilling, dust control, installation, testing and recording.

A SWMS is legally required under WHS Regulation s 299 only for high risk construction work (s 291). Drilling concrete and masonry creates silica dust, so the contaminated atmosphere item is ticked by default; also tick work on or near energised electrical installations or services, and a fall of more than 2 metres, where they apply to your job.

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What Is Covered In Our Post-Installed Anchor Drilling and Fixing SWMS?

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

• Silica dust from drilling concrete
• Striking reinforcement and drill kickback
• Striking cast-in electrical conduits
• Post-tensioned cable strikes
• Anchor failure and falling fixtures
• Chemical anchor resin skin and eye contact
• Overhead drilling and falls
• Falling tools and debris
• Anchor proof testing failure
• Noise and hearing loss
• Hand-arm vibration
• Electric shock from damaged leads

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) when the work is construction work
• Site induction
• Training in the safe use of rotary hammer drills and the anchor system, with competency confirmed by a competent person
• Licensed electrical worker (electrical work licence) for isolating and testing circuits and any electrical work
• Crystalline silica training for workers involved in drilling concrete or masonry where the written assessment finds the processing high risk
• No high risk work licence class covers drilling and anchoring; boom-type EWPs of 11 m or more need the Schedule 3 EWP class

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Managing Risks of Plant 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
• Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces 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): electrical equipment on construction work (s 140) and energised electrical work (ss 199-204)
• Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2021 – Managing electrical risks in the workplace

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.