Spray Painting Booth SWMS

For vehicle repairers, fabricators, joinery shops and industrial painters who spray in booths. It follows the work from product planning and the booth airflow check through ignition source control, mixing, spraying and flash-off to cleaning, filter changes and pack-up.

Spray painting in a booth is not construction work by itself. A SWMS is legally required under WHS Regulation s 299 only for high risk construction work, so otherwise this works as a written safe work procedure or task risk assessment. If the work is high risk construction work, tick the reg 291 items that apply, for example a contaminated or flammable atmosphere.

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What Is Covered In Our Spray Painting Booth SWMS?

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

• Solvent vapour and paint mist inhalation
• Isocyanate sensitisation and occupational asthma
• Booth extraction or filters failing
• Fire and explosion from solvent vapour
• Static discharge during mixing and spraying
• Skin and eye contact with paint and hardener
• Respirator fit and air supply failure
• Solvent-soaked rags and spent filters
• Noise from compressed air and extraction
• Manual handling of articles into the booth
• Slips on overspray and wet grating
• Fumes released when the booth is opened too soon

High Risk Construction Work

No high risk construction work items (WHS Regulation 2011 (Qld) s 291) are pre-ticked, because this work is not high risk construction work by itself. Tick the items that apply to your job, such as a fall risk of more than 2 metres or work where powered mobile plant is moving.

Licences, Training and Competency

• Training in spray painting in booths and in the hazards of the products used, including solvents and isocyanates
• Training in the use, fit testing, cleaning and maintenance of the respirators used, including air supplied respirators
• Trade qualification or equivalent competency in spray painting
• Health monitoring for workers doing ongoing isocyanate work where there is a significant risk to health (WHS Regulation s 368 and schedule 14, table 14.1, item 8), carried out by or under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner with experience in health monitoring (s 371)
• Licensed electrical worker for work on the booth wiring and lighting (Electrical Safety Act 2002 s 55)
• Induction in this SWMS, the SDS for each product and the workshop rules
• First aid provided as WHS Regulation s 42 requires

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 52, 53 and 355 (ignition sources, flammable stock, fire and explosion)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): ss 44, 49, 50, 342, 346, 352 and 357 (personal protective equipment, exposure standards and air monitoring, labelling of decanted chemicals, register, review of controls, spills)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): ss 368 to 371 and schedule 14 (health monitoring)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld): ss 208(5), 210 and 213 (isolation and maintenance of plant)
• Spray Painting and Powder Coating Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Preparation of Safety Data Sheets for Hazardous Chemicals Code of Practice 2021
• Labelling of Workplace Hazardous Chemicals Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work Code of Practice 2021
• Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2021
• First Aid in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Code of Practice 2021 – Managing electrical risks in the workplace
• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld): s 55 (only licensed electrical workers do electrical work)
• AS/NZS 4114 Spray painting booths, designated spray painting areas and paint mixing rooms (named only as the Spray Painting and Powder Coating Code of Practice 2021 names it)

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.