Solar Farm Construction Safety Management Plan

A solar farm construction safety management plan for a Queensland utility-scale project, laid out so every item the WHS Regulation requires of a principal contractor has its own part. It adds the parts a solar farm needs: construction and energised areas, electrical licences and supervision, energised work, the high voltage auditor and network connection, overhead and underground lines, piling and racking, trenching, plant and traffic, remote work, heat, wildlife, and bushfire, storm and cyclone triggers. It suits principal contractors, engineering, procurement and construction businesses and site managers on projects where the construction work costs $250,000 or more. It points to your policies and registers by name instead of repeating them.

What Is Included In Our Solar Farm Construction Safety Management Plan?

• A table showing where each WHS Regulation part 6.4 requirement sits in the plan
• Project details for a solar farm: capacity, technology, stages, network connection, auditor and nearest hospital
• Construction, installation, isolated and energised area statuses with a status register
• Electrical work licence register, training person supervision and the qualified technical person
• Energised work steps, isolation, arc flash and DC hazard controls, and a live work register
• High voltage auditor inspection and staged energisation record, with the network entity’s requirements
• Overhead line distances up to 275 kV, a line register and underground cable and services controls
• Piling, ground screw, racking, tracker and module controls with exclusion zones and a piling register
• Trenching, cable laying and earthworks, with a trench register and the 1.5 m support rule
• Remote work communications, heat bands, fatigue, snake and Q fever controls
• Fire danger, bushfire, cyclone, lightning and flood trigger sheet, emergency plan and incident notification
• SWMS, risk, subcontractor, licence and inspection registers, review and sign-off

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word form (26 pages), A4 portrait, to fill in on screen or print
• Tick boxes and date pickers that work in Word
• Business details typed once and filled in on every page, plus a space for your logo
• Sign-off and document control

Review it and adjust it to suit your business, your sites and the way your team works, and talk it through with your workers. If you have any trouble downloading this template, you can contact us at any time. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading.