The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 57-hazard risk register written for field mechanical fitters, mobile site welders and shutdown contractors, 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.
✓The hazard register covers 7 activities: vehicle loading, transport and site arrival; site assessment, set-up and preparation; access, positioning and fit-up on site; welding and cutting on site; hot work control, clean-up and site handback; gas, consumable and chemical handling and storage 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 field mechanical fitters, mobile site welders and shutdown contractors actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our mobile welding risk assessment: 57 hazards across 7 activities, each with its consequence and starting rating, and 450 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 field mechanical fitters, mobile site welders and shutdown contractors in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (57 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 57 hazards in the mobile welding register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Building fire with loss of the premises and its contents, and injury or death to occupants who were unaware hot work was taking place. Hot work by contractors is one of the most common causes of major building fires. Process Safety · inherent risk 5B.
Crush injuries, multiple fractures, fatality. Vehicle and mobile plant incidents are consistently among the leading mechanisms of work-related fatality in Australia. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Load dropped onto a person: crush injuries, multiple fractures, fatality. Sling angle is the most common miscalculation, because working load limit falls sharply as the included angle opens up. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Entanglement and degloving, amputation of fingers and hands, severe lacerations; a workpiece drawn into the gap between wheel and work rest can shatter the wheel and eject fragments at lethal speed. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Crush injuries and fatality; damage to the assembly and adjacent plant. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Electric shock, burns, falls, crush injuries and fire with no one to summon help. Delay is the factor that turns an injury into a fatality, and remote work maximises delay. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Rapidly developing workshop fire, burns, loss of premises and stock, business interruption. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Workshop fire, flash fire, explosion of a closed vessel, severe burns, fatality, loss of premises and stock. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Field mechanical fitters, mobile site welders and shutdown contractors take their workshop to the job. The day starts with loading the vehicle and driving to site, then assessing the site, setting up and preparing the area. Access, positioning and fit-up happen wherever the job is, welding and cutting are done in someone else's premises, and the work ends with hot work control, clean-up and handing the site back. Gas, consumables and chemicals travel with you, and there is usually a home yard as well.
The hazard and risk register for this work lists 57 hazards and 450 controls. At the top, rated 5B, is hot work in occupied and combustible premises, because hot work by contractors is one of the most common causes of major building fires and the occupants may not know it is happening. Working alone, remotely and outside normal hours is next, since delay is what turns an injury into a fatality. Forklift and crane movement, dropped loads, fixed plant, toppling work and sparks and slag igniting combustibles make up the rest of the leading list.
A generic construction WHS plan assumes a controlled site with a site office, a first aider and a principal contractor running the permits. It does not deal with a lone welder at a client's factory at night, with checking behind a wall before cutting, or with the fire watch and handback that follow. For a mobile business, those are the core of the plan.
A facility manager letting you into an occupied building wants to see a signed policy and then the hot work section of your hazard register, because their premises are what is at risk. The plan rates hot work in occupied premises at the top of the register and sets out the permit, fire watch and handback controls behind it.
Shutdown principals usually move straight to contractor management and lone working: how your people are prequalified, inducted and supervised, and how someone knows they are safe when working by themselves after hours. Insurers commonly check the emergency plan and whether fire watch is recorded. The tender cover sheet shows each reviewer where their requirement is answered, which matters when you are prequalifying with several sites at once.
Shutdown and maintenance work increasingly goes through contractor prequalification portals. When the portal asks you to upload a WHS management plan and all you have is a SWMS and an insurance certificate, your registration stays incomplete, and the call-out goes to a contractor whose paperwork is already approved.
On the day, the principal's induction can stall too. A site safety officer asks for your hot work procedure and your lone worker arrangements before issuing a permit, and without them you wait in the car park or go home. It is a lost day that the client remembers when they allocate the next shutdown.
The worst case is a fire that starts after you have left, from slag that dropped through a gap into insulation or stored goods. The building owner's insurer, the regulator and the client will all ask for the hot work permit, the fire watch record and the procedure you followed. If none of those exist in writing, it is very hard to show that you did what a careful contractor would have done.
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.