Site Hoarding Installation SWMS

Suits fencing, scaffolding and civil contractors and builders who install hoarding and gates around construction sites in built-up areas. It follows the work in order, from planning the hoarding line and locating services to traffic and pedestrian controls, footings, lifting, bracing, sheeting, gates and inspection. Temporary site fencing is covered by a separate SWMS.

Work in an area where powered mobile plant moves is high risk construction work (WHS Regulation s 291(o)), so that item is ticked. Also tick the others the job involves: work on or beside a road in use, a fall of more than 2 metres when fixing at height, a trench or shaft deeper than 1.5 metres, or energised electrical services.

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What Is Covered In Our Site Hoarding 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:

• Hoarding blown over in wind
• Dropped frames or panels during crane lifts
• Striking buried services when digging footings
• Contact with overhead power lines
• Vehicles striking workers at the road edge
• Pedestrians entering the work area
• Trench and hole collapse at footings
• Falls when fixing at height
• Crush injuries in gates and hinges
• Cuts from sheet edges
• Wet concrete burns
• Manual handling of posts and frames

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

• General construction induction training card (white card) for construction work
• Dogging licence (Schedule 3 item 4) for anyone who slings a load or directs a crane operator when the load is out of the operator’s view
• Crane operator holding the high risk work licence for the class of crane used (Schedule 3) when a crane lifts frames or panels
• Operator licence for the class of boom-type elevating work platform of 11 m or more (Schedule 3) where one is used; otherwise operators trained on the EWP model
• Forklift truck licence (Schedule 3) for anyone driving a forklift; excavator and telehandler operators trained and assessed as competent on the machine
• Traffic controllers trained for the work where a road or footpath is closed or controlled, working to a traffic management plan
• Competent person or engineer to design or approve the hoarding frame, footings and wind bracing
• 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
• Excavation Work Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Mobile Crane Code of Practice 2024
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• Safe Design of Structures Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead power line exclusion zones (schedule 2)

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.