Window and External Door Installation SWMS

Suits builders and installers fitting aluminium and timber window frames and external hinged and fixed doors. It covers planning and asbestos checks, moving frames and glass, protecting openings, work at height, fixing, glazing and sealing, and handover.

No item is pre-ticked. Tick the falls item when a person could fall more than 2 metres (such as at upper-storey openings), and the asbestos disturbance item when the job involves disturbing asbestos.

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What Is Covered In Our Window and External Door Installation SWMS?

After the standard pre-start checks, the job steps run from “Plan the work and check openings and the building” to “Reinstate protection, clean up and hand over”. The hazards and controls include:

• Asbestos in older walls and linings
• Cutting services when drilling walls
• Heavy frames and glazed units
• Broken glass cuts
• Falls from upper-storey openings
• Falls from scaffolds, platforms and ladders
• Objects dropped from openings
• Frames falling during fitting
• Silica dust from drilling masonry
• Sealant, solvent and foam fumes
• Openings left unprotected at the end of the shift

High Risk Construction Work

None of the high risk construction work items (WHS Regulation 2011 (Qld) s 291) are pre-ticked, because this job is not high risk construction work by itself. Tick any that apply on your site.

Licences, Training and Competency

• General construction induction training card (white card) for construction work, and the site induction
• Installers trained in the window or door maker’s installation instructions
• Dogging high risk work licence for any worker who slings a large unit or directs a crane operator when the load is out of the operator’s view
• High risk work licence for the scaffolding class needed by any person who erects, alters or dismantles a scaffold from which a person or object could fall more than 4 m
• High risk work licence for the boom-type elevating work platform class when the boom length is 11 m or more
• Crystalline silica training for workers who drill or chase brick, block or concrete openings with power tools (WHS Regulation s 529CD, where that processing is high risk)

Legislation and Codes of Practice Referenced

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)
• Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)
• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks Code of Practice 2021
• Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces Code of Practice 2021
• Scaffolding 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
• How to Manage and Control Asbestos in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice 2021
• Safe Design of Structures Code of Practice 2021
• Electrical Safety Act 2002 (Qld)
• Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 (Qld): overhead power line exclusion zones

What You Get

• An editable Microsoft Word document (13 A4 landscape pages). Type your business, client and job details once and they fill in on every page, with a space for your logo
• 8 job steps for this work, each with its hazards, controls, initial and residual risk scores and the person responsible
• PPE listed for this job: safety boots; cut-resistant gloves for handling glass and aluminium; safety glasses; hard hat when work above or beside is in progress
• Emergency arrangements for: glass breakage with severe bleeding and fall from an opening or platform
• Plus the parts every Work Safety QLD SWMS shares, from the s 291 checklist to the worker sign-on sheet (see the layout in our free SWMS template)

Adjust it for your site, plant and crew, and talk it through with your workers before work starts. Please make sure you read our Disclaimer before downloading this SWMS.

Checked against the Queensland laws and codes of practice listed above. Last reviewed November 2026.