Cool Room Construction SWMS 10599-1

Cool Room Construction Safe Work Method Statement

This Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) provides an outlines of the general safety steps, hazards and controls relating to construction of cool/freezer rooms using insulated panelling. Included in this SWMS is planning and preparation, manual handling considerations, working on platform ladders and trestles, working near EWP, cutting and joining insulated panel products and use of mastic sealants.

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Cool Room Construction SWMS Content: 

• High Risk Construction Work
• Mobile Plant   
• Involves a risk of a person falling more than 2m, including work on telecommunications towers
• Risk Assessment Matrix
• Hierarchy of Controls
• PPE
• Job Steps (includes potential hazards and control measures)
1. Planning & Preparation
2. Training and Capabilities
3. Assess onsite conditions
4. Materials delivery and placement
5. Work area set up
6. Cutting / trimming / joining panels & angle lengths
7. Using Caulking products/gun
8. Positioning & levelling base panels 
9. Standing wall panels & installing roof panels
10. Working at elevated positions 
11. On Completion
• Emergency Response Procedures
• Legislative References
• Employee sign off section
• Review & Monitoring  

For works carried out on a regular basis a generic SWMS may be prepared and used for those work activities.

Remember: The content of the SWMS should be refined over time and include consultation with workers and other persons conducting a business or undertaking. Prior to each new activity, the SWMS must be reviewed and revised to ensure it applies to the high risk construction work and the actual site you are working at.