The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 28-hazard risk register written for floor sanding contractors and timber floor finishing crews, procedures, registers and an emergency plan. Editable Word, written by a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
Authored to order for your business and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as a download.
Request this plan — quote within one business dayTell us your business name, sites and the tender or client you are preparing for. A Certified Industrial Hygienist replies within one business day.
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The policy and plan govern the system; the register, procedures and registers are written for this industry from the hazard content we already hold for it.
✓The hazard register covers 13 activities: transport, access and site set-up; floor preparation; sanding operations; general site safety; sanding dust; coatings, stains and solvents and more.
✓Editable Microsoft Word throughout, with your business name, ABN, sites and responsible people written in.
A WHS management plan is the document a council tender panel, a principal contractor or an insurer asks for before your SWMS: the policy, the responsibilities, the way hazards are found and controlled, and the registers that prove the system runs. A generic plan names none of the work floor sanding contractors and timber floor finishing crews actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our floor sanding risk assessment: 28 hazards across 13 activities, each with its consequence and starting rating, and 147 controls ranked on the hierarchy of control.
The plan is authored to order for your business by a Certified Industrial Hygienist and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as an editable Word download.
WHS management plan for floor sanding contractors and timber floor finishing crews in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (28 hazards), safe work procedures, induction, inspection, incident and emergency registers, and a tender and prequalification cover sheet. Editable Word.
Authored to order for your business and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as a download.
Request this plan — quote within one business dayTell us your business name, sites and the tender or client you are preparing for. A Certified Industrial Hygienist replies within one business day.
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A sample of the 28 hazards in the floor sanding register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Flash fire or vapour explosion inside the building, severe burns and fatality. Process Safety · inherent risk 5B.
Mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer, with no safe level of exposure. Asbestos WEL 0.1 f/mL. Removal of more than 10 m2 of non-friable asbestos requires a licensed removalist. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 5B.
Floor sanding produces high exposures to fine wood dust. Wood dust is classified by IARC as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans (sinonasal cancer), with the strongest evidence for hardwoods. It is a respiratory and dermal sensitiser: occupational asthma, rhinitis, dermatitis. The WEL is 1 mg/m3 for hardwood and 2 mg/m3 for softwood (8-hour TWA, inhalable); mixed species are assessed against the hardwood limit as a professional default. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4D.
Fire starting unattended hours later, destroying the building or vehicle. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Fire starting unattended. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Short, very high exposures to fine wood dust for the cleaner. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4C.
Lead poisoning affecting the nervous system, kidneys, blood and reproduction; harm to occupants and children. Machine sanding of paint with more than 1% lead is a lead process. Inorganic lead WEL 0.05 mg/m3. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4C.
Lead poisoning. Lead risk work is work likely to raise blood lead above 5 µg/dL for females of reproductive capacity or 20 µg/dL otherwise; it must be notified to SafeWork NSW and needs health monitoring before starting and one month after. Removal from lead risk work at 10 µg/dL (females of reproductive capacity) or 30 µg/dL (others). Inorganic lead WEL 0.05 mg/m3. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4C.
A floor sanding crew works in other people's buildings every day. The plan has to follow the job from transport, access and site set-up through floor preparation, drum sanding, edging and corner work, to the coats of stain, solvent-borne or water-based finish and two-pack isocyanate product that go down last. Each of those stages carries its own hazards, and the register behind this plan holds 28 of them with 147 controls.
Two hazards sit at the top of that register. Flammable vapour from solvent-based coatings in an enclosed room can flash or explode inside the building, and asbestos in old floor coverings, underlay and adhesive causes mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer with no safe level of exposure. Close behind are wood dust from sanding, which IARC classes as carcinogenic to humans with a limit of 1 mg/m3 for hardwood, the spontaneous combustion of sanding dust in bags and of applicator pads and rags hours after the crew has left, and lead paint on floors, skirtings and stairs in older houses.
A generic construction plan does not see any of this. It will talk about scaffolds and excavations and say nothing about testing old paint before machine sanding it, what to do when asbestos turns up under a carpet, where the dust bag goes at the end of the day, or who is due a blood lead test.
Whoever engages you usually opens the signed WHS policy first, then goes straight to the hazards they are worried about in their building. For a builder or strata manager that is asbestos and lead in older buildings, and the plan gives them a written identification step before any floor is sanded, with the licensed-removalist threshold for non-friable asbestos stated plainly.
An insurer turns to fire. The plan shows how solvent vapour is controlled in closed rooms, how sanding dust and oily rags are stored and removed so they cannot self-heat in a van or a bin, and what the crew does if a fire starts. Because wood dust, isocyanates and lead are health hazards, the exposure assessment and health monitoring section shows who is monitored and when, including blood lead testing before and one month after lead risk work.
The contractor section and the tender cover sheet tell a panel where each of its questions is answered, so nobody has to read the whole plan to find the emergency arrangements.
You quote a school hall or a council library floor and the tender comes back incomplete because there was no WHS management plan to attach. Or the builder's induction stops at the gate because nobody can show how you deal with the old vinyl and adhesive.
The worse days are the ones where something happens. A bag of sanding dust left in the ute smoulders overnight. A crew member sands a painted staircase in a federation house without anyone checking the paint, and weeks later a blood test comes back high. If there is no procedure behind the work, there is nothing to show that anyone thought about it beforehand.
Then comes the conversation with SafeWork NSW. Lead risk work has to be notified, and a notifiable incident brings an inspector asking what your system was. A written plan, kept up to date, is how you show the steps you took, and it supports your due diligence as the person running the business.
If you operate, maintain or contract to these assets in NSW, this pack is written for your duties.
The Codes of Practice and Australian Standards these documents are measured against, and the legislation behind them.
Send the enquiry with your business name and the tender or client you are preparing for. You will have an itemised quote within one business day and a plan written for your work, not a template with the name changed.
Authored to order for your business and quoted within one business day. When the pack for this industry is released it will be sold here as a download.
A WHS management plan supports your due diligence; holding one is not compliance in itself. You must run the system it describes — consult your workers, put the controls in place, keep the registers current and review the plan after any incident or change. Exposure monitoring and health monitoring, where the register calls for them, are work for an occupational hygienist and a registered medical practitioner.