The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 10-hazard risk register written for grain receival sites, bulk storage and on-farm silo operators, procedures, registers and an emergency plan. Editable Word, written by a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
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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.
✓Built on the grain storage pack's 7 control documents, including master SOP; process Safety & Combustible Dust Risk Assessment; hazardous Area Classification & Grain Dust Zoning Register.
✓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 grain receival sites, bulk storage and on-farm silo operators actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our grain storage compliance pack: 10 leading hazards, each with the control documents that answer it.
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 grain receival sites, bulk storage and on-farm silo operators in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (10 hazards), safe work procedures, induction, inspection, incident and emergency registers, and a tender and prequalification cover sheet. Editable Word.
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A sample of the 10 hazards in the grain storage register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Belt slip or seized head pulley bearing ignites airborne grain dust cloud inside elevator casing; pressure wave propagates to silos and headhouse.
Initial shockwave lofts settled grain dust from roof trusses and cable trays; secondary flame front consumes building, causing massive structural destruction and fatalities.
Worker walks onto crust of bridged or rat-holed grain; crust collapses, submerging worker under tens of tonnes of grain, causing fatal asphyxiation in under 30 seconds.
Entanglement in rotating auger screw inside silo floor during final clean-down; traumatic limb amputation and fatal crushing.
Direct gas-fired burner fault or accumulated chaff on heat exchanger ignites, causing fire in grain column and potential building escalation.
Workers or contractors inhale phosphine gas (>0.3 ppm) leaking from unsealed silo hatches; severe pulmonary edema and fatal chemical poisoning.
Hot surfaces (>160°C) or electrical arching from non-Ex fixtures ignites combustible grain dust layers or clouds.
Biological decomposition in wet grain generates hot-spots (>80°C); unmonitored smoulder leads to deep silo fire.
Grain receival sites, bulk storage and on-farm silo operators run a seasonal operation that peaks hard at harvest. Grain moves through receival pits, bucket elevators and drag chain conveyors, column dryers and aerated silos, and out through sweep auger reclaim and road or rail outloading. Fumigation with phosphine runs alongside. The plan needs safety governance that covers harvest intake, elevator alignment and underspeed interlocks, fumigation safety zones and management of change.
The register is led by fire and engulfment. A slipping belt or seized bearing in an elevator leg ignites a dust cloud, and the pressure wave lofts settled dust in the headhouse into a secondary explosion. Unrated lights and electrical fittings in Zone 20, 21 and 22 areas provide ignition, dryers catch fire, and wet grain self-heats into a smouldering silo fire. Inside the silo, a worker on a bridged crust can be buried in seconds, and a sweep auger can catch a limb during clean-down. Phosphine leaking from unsealed hatches poisons workers and contractors.
A generic construction plan has nothing on hazardous area classification, dust housekeeping under s 53 of the WHS Regulation 2025 (NSW), silo entry and engulfment prevention, auger lockout, fumigation zones or silo fire response.
A bulk handler engaging a storage site, or an insurer rating one, reads the signed WHS policy and then looks at dust explosion control. The plan gives them the hazardous area zoning register, the dust accumulation inspection regime with its clean, action and stop-work thresholds, and the register entries for elevators and dryers with their starting ratings and controls.
Silo entry is the other section they turn to. It sets out the prohibition on entry during bottom discharge, gas testing for oxygen and fumigant gases, lifelines and the standby person. Because phosphine is a health hazard, reviewers look for how fumigation zones are set and how exposure is managed. Contractor management matters at harvest, when casual staff, fumigators and electricians arrive at once, and the emergency plan with its drill record covers grain rescue, smouldering silo fires and the fire equipment test record.
The commercial cost comes first. A bulk handler or grower group asks for your WHS management plan and dust controls before harvest, and the site offers a fire extinguisher list and a sign at the silo ladder. The storage contract goes to a site that can show a system, or your insurer asks the same questions and prices the answer.
At harvest, the site is full of people who were not there last month. A casual worker walks onto a crusted silo to break a bridge. An auger is restarted while someone is still inside. Someone blows down dust with compressed air, or a contractor opens a hatch on a fumigated silo. Each of those needed a written procedure, an induction and a record, and without them your supervisors cannot show what anyone was told.
After a notifiable incident, whether an engulfment, a dust explosion or a phosphine exposure, the regulator asks for the entry procedure, the zoning register, the housekeeping records, the fumigation arrangements and the training register. Kept registers support your due diligence and show what your site had in place. Without them, the harvest is reconstructed from memory.
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.