Softfall Surface Installation SWMS 10340-4

Soft Fall Surface Installation Safe Work Method Statement

This SWMS covers general aspects associated with the preparation and laying of wet pour rubber (soft fall surfacing) on various surfaces. This includes preparing sub grade, manual handling, working adjacent to mobile plant and the safe use of associated machinery.

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Soft Fall Surface Installation SWMS Content: 

• High Risk Construction Work
• Mobile Plant   
• Work carried out adjacent to a road, railway or shipping lane, traffic corridor
• 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. General Work Area Set Up
5. Delivery of materials and mobile plant
6. Setting out/ profiling building lines
7. Preparing soil base
8. Preparing an existing hard surface i.e. concrete etc
9. Mixing wet pour rubber
10. Application & finishing
11. Refuelling small engine equipment on site (mixer etc)
12. 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.