The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 57-hazard risk register written for hVAC contractors, ducting workshops and thin-gauge sheet fabricators, 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: coil and sheet receipt, storage and handling; shearing, notching, folding and forming; assembly, riveting and seaming; spot welding, tacking and brazing; finishing, sealing and packing; 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 hVAC contractors, ducting workshops and thin-gauge sheet fabricators actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our sheet metal and hvac risk assessment: 57 hazards across 7 activities, each with its consequence and starting rating, and 449 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 hVAC contractors, ducting workshops and thin-gauge sheet fabricators 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 sheet metal and hvac register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Amputation of fingers and hands, degloving, crush injuries. Press brakes and guillotines account for a large share of serious machinery amputations in Australian workshops. Safety · inherent risk 5C.
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.
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.
Zinc fume (metal fume fever), lead from old paint (a lead process with notification and biological monitoring duties), chromate primers containing Cr(VI), cadmium from plating, isocyanates from two-pack coatings. None of these are controlled by the arrangements in a bare mild steel workshop. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4C.
An HVAC contractor or ducting workshop starts with coil and sheet, which is received, stored and handled before it is sheared, notched, folded and formed. Pieces are assembled, riveted and seamed, joined by spot welding, tacking and brazing, then sealed, finished and packed for site. Gases, consumables and sealants are stored on the same floor, and ventilation has to deal with brazing fume and general workshop air. The plan for a thin-gauge fabricator is built around that flow.
Its hazard and risk register covers 57 hazards with 449 controls, and the highest-rated hazard is the machinery itself. Guillotine shears, folders, press brakes and notchers are rated 5C, because they account for a large share of serious machinery amputations in Australian workshops. After them come forklift, crane and pedestrian movement, dropped loads, fixed plant, toppling assemblies, sparks and hot work fires, and unidentified coatings or galvanising on incoming stock that release zinc fume and other contaminants when heated.
A generic construction WHS plan is written from the installer's point of view, covering ceiling access and site work, and it rarely looks inside the workshop that makes the duct. It will not deal with guarding and isolation on a press brake, with setting a guillotine for a new operator, or with brazing and welding galvanised sheet. Those omissions are exactly where a sheet metal shop's worst injuries occur.
A builder engaging a mechanical services contractor will open the signed policy first and then check the hazard register for how the workshop handles press brakes and guillotines. The plan gives each machine its starting rating, the guarding and isolation controls, and the safe work procedures behind them, which is usually what the reviewer needs to see.
Because galvanised and coated sheet is routinely heated, careful reviewers look for how fume from spot welding and brazing is controlled and whether health monitoring is considered where it applies. Insurers commonly read the emergency plan and hot work arrangements. The contractor section explains how installers, labour hire and subcontract fabricators are prequalified, inducted and supervised, and the tender cover sheet directs the panel to each answer.
Mechanical services packages on council and commercial work are commonly let only to contractors who can show a management system. If your submission offers installation SWMS but nothing covering your own workshop, the panel scores it down or sets it aside, and the package goes to a competitor who can show a plan for both the shop and the site.
The most serious event in a sheet metal shop is usually a hand in a press brake or guillotine, often involving a newer worker who was shown the machine once. Afterwards, you are asked whether the machine had been assessed, what the safe work procedure was and whether the operator's training was recorded. Without a plant register, a procedure and a training record, you have no written answer to any of those questions.
Fire is the other recurring risk. A spark from brazing lands in packing material or offcuts of lagging and the fire takes hold overnight. Your insurer then asks for the hot work controls and the emergency plan, and the regulator asks how the risk had been identified, and with nothing written down you are answering both 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.