The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 61-hazard risk register written for beam and column lines, infrastructure fabricators and heavy building trades, 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 8 activities: material receipt, storage and handling of heavy sections and plate; cutting, coping, drilling and material preparation; fit-up, tacking and assembly of large fabrications; welding - flux-cored (FCAW), submerged arc (SAW) and stick (MMA) on structural carbon steel; air arc gouging, back-gouging and weld rework; weld inspection, dressing and finishing 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 beam and column lines, infrastructure fabricators and heavy building trades actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our structural steel risk assessment: 61 hazards across 8 activities, each with its consequence and starting rating, and 485 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 beam and column lines, infrastructure fabricators and heavy building trades in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (61 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 61 hazards in the structural steel register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, permanent and untreatable. At 110 dB(A) the daily exposure standard is reached in under two minutes, so a single gouging run can account for a full day's permitted dose. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 4D.
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.
Falls from height are a leading cause of workplace death in Australia. A fall onto steel, jigs or stillages causes severe injury from heights well below those normally thought of as dangerous. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Crush injuries and fatality; the piece falling or swinging into people, plant or the building structure. Safety · inherent risk 4C.
Rapidly developing workshop fire, burns, loss of premises and stock, business interruption. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
A beam and column line handles heavy sections and plate from the moment the truck is unloaded. Members are cut, coped and drilled, large fabrications are fitted up and tacked, and the welding is flux-cored, submerged arc and stick on structural carbon steel. Air arc gouging and back-gouging are a routine part of weld rework, followed by inspection and dressing, and flux, gas and consumables are stored and handled throughout.
Its hazard and risk register carries 61 hazards and 485 controls. Leading them is noise from air arc gouging: at 110 dB(A) the daily exposure standard is reached in under two minutes, so one gouging run can use up a whole day's dose. Close behind are forklift, crane and pedestrian movement, dropped loads from gantry cranes, fixed plant, toppling jigs and assemblies, falls from and onto partly built fabrications, turning and rotating large pieces, and sparks igniting combustibles.
A generic construction WHS plan assumes the steel is already fabricated and arriving on site. It will cover erection, but it will not rate gouging noise as the hearing hazard it is, it will not plan how a long girder is turned over on the floor, and it will not treat a fall from the top of a partly welded truss inside a workshop as work at height.
A principal contractor buying structural steel wants evidence that the fabricator runs a controlled shop, so the signed policy and the named roles come first. The hazard register is next, and reviewers of heavy fabricators usually look for crane lifting, the turning of large pieces and falls from fabrications, because those are where serious injuries happen. The plan gives each of these a starting rating and the controls that apply.
Gouging noise is a health hazard, and a panel with a hygiene reviewer will check that hearing is dealt with as a long-term exposure, including where audiometric health monitoring fits in the programme. Insurers commonly turn to the emergency plan and the hot work controls. The contractor section shows how visiting crane crews, riggers and labour hire are prequalified, inducted and supervised on your floor, and the tender cover sheet maps each panel requirement to its answer in the plan.
Infrastructure and commercial building work is often let through prequalification, and a fabricator without a management plan tends to be screened out before the price is even opened. You may have supplied the same builder for years, but a folder of SWMS does not answer a prequalification question about a WHS plan.
On your floor, the risk shows up when a long member is rolled with a forklift instead of lifted properly and swings into a fitter, or when a boilermaker steps off the top chord of a truss that nobody had thought of as a height. After an event like that, you are asked what your procedure was for turning large fabrications, and a verbal answer about how it is normally done does not carry much weight.
Hearing loss is the slower problem. A worker who has gouged back-welds for ten years lodges a claim, and you are asked whether noise was assessed, whether hearing protection was chosen for 110 dB(A) and whether hearing was ever tested. With no register, no training record and no health monitoring on file, there is little to show that the risk was managed at all.
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.