Road Line Marking SWMS

Suits line marking contractors who mark roads with trucks and hand machines. It covers the traffic management plan, preparing the truck and materials, traffic control set-up, pavement preparation, truck and hand marking, hot thermoplastic, protecting wet lines, clean-up and removal. Traffic control has its own SWMS, and car park line marking needs a separate one.

Work on, in or adjacent to a road in use by traffic, and work where powered mobile plant moves, are high risk construction work (WHS Regulation s 291(n) and (o)), so those items are ticked. Tick the other items the job involves, for example the contaminated or flammable atmosphere item when solvent use creates a flammable atmosphere, the item for chemical, fuel or refrigerant lines, or the contaminated atmosphere item if grinding off old markings creates silica dust.

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What Is Covered In Our Road Line Marking SWMS?

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

• Passing traffic striking workers
• Reversing line marking trucks
• Burns from molten thermoplastic
• LPG leaks and fire at the burner
• Solvent and paint fumes
• Airless spray gun injection injuries
• Silica dust from grinding off old markings
• Workers on foot in closed lanes
• Vehicles crossing wet lines
• Manual handling of bags and pails
• Fatigue on night shifts
• Sun and heat exposure

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 on, in or adjacent to a road, railway, shipping lane or other traffic corridor that is in use by traffic other than pedestrians
• Is carried out in an area at a workplace in which there is any movement of powered mobile plant

Licences, Training and Competency

• General construction induction training card (white card) where the work is construction work, and wherever the road authority or principal contractor requires it
• Accredited traffic controllers where the plan calls for traffic control (Transport Operations (Road Use Management-Accreditation and Other Provisions) Regulation 2015)
• Driver licence of the class for the marking truck, with the licence class required for any attached trailer
• Operators trained in the melter, burner and LPG system, and in the spray equipment, used
• Spotter briefed on hand signals and the truck’s blind spots
• First aider on the crew, trained for burns
• Crystalline silica training where grinding or blasting off old markings is assessed as high risk
• Site induction

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice 2008
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace 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
• Preparation of Safety Data Sheets for Hazardous Chemicals Code of Practice 2021
• Spray Painting and Powder Coating Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022
• Transport Operations (Road Use Management-Accreditation and Other Provisions) Regulation 2015 (Qld): traffic controller accreditation
• Heavy Vehicle National Law (Queensland) (where the marking truck is a heavy vehicle)
• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Work Environment and Facilities Code of Practice 2021
• First Aid in the Workplace 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.