The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 35-hazard risk register written for commercial blasting booths and industrial protective coating yards, 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: material receipt, storage and handling; surface inspection, masking and mechanical preparation; abrasive blasting and surface preparation; handling, rigging and support of work in progress; protective coating application, curing and handling; workshop ventilation, environment and general workshop 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 commercial blasting booths and industrial protective coating yards actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our blasting and coating risk assessment: 35 hazards across 7 activities, each with its consequence and starting rating, and 294 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 commercial blasting booths and industrial protective coating yards in New South Wales: WHS policy, management plan, the industry hazard and risk register (35 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 35 hazards in the blasting and coating register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Silicosis, progressive and irreversible, including accelerated silicosis from high exposures over a few years; lung cancer; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; autoimmune disease. Respirable crystalline silica is a Schedule 14 substance, so health monitoring is required where there is a significant risk of exposure. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 5C.
Lead exposure, which is lead process work under the WHS Regulation and carries notification, blood lead monitoring and removal level duties. Hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen with no safe level from 1 December 2026. Cadmium and zinc from plated and galvanised surfaces. None of this is controlled by arrangements designed for clean steel. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 5C.
Abrasive at blasting pressure penetrates skin and destroys tissue, and can amputate or kill at close range. A whipping hose under pressure causes severe blunt injury. Air forced into the body through skin causes fatal air embolism. Safety · inherent risk 5B.
A collapse from heat, carbon monoxide in the air supply, or an injury inside the enclosure goes unnoticed until it is too late. The conditions that cause the emergency are the same ones that prevent anyone noticing it. Safety · inherent risk 5B.
Carbon monoxide delivered directly into the helmet, causing unconsciousness inside an enclosure where the person cannot be seen or easily reached; oil mist and particulate inhaled; in the worst case, death from a supply that was believed to be protective. Occupational Hygiene · inherent risk 5B.
Noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, permanent and untreatable. Blasting commonly exceeds 110 dB(A), at which the daily exposure standard is reached in under two minutes. Hand-arm vibration syndrome from sustained nozzle work. 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.
A commercial blasting booth or industrial coating yard receives and stores material, inspects and masks surfaces and prepares them mechanically, carries out abrasive blasting, rigs and supports work in progress, then applies, cures and handles protective coatings. Coatings, solvents and waste are stored on site, and ventilation governs conditions in every enclosure. The management plan has to describe the job from the moment a fabricated item arrives until it leaves coated, including what happens inside the blast room.
The register for this work has 35 hazards and 294 controls, and it is weighted toward health. Respirable crystalline silica from abrasive blasting causes silicosis, including accelerated silicosis, and as a Schedule 14 substance it brings health monitoring where there is a significant risk of exposure. Removing old coatings releases lead, which is lead process work with notification, blood lead monitoring and removal level duties, along with hexavalent chromium, cadmium and zinc. Air-fed helmets can deliver carbon monoxide straight to the operator, blasting noise commonly exceeds 110 dB(A), and hose whip, nozzle discharge and working alone inside an enclosure can each kill.
A generic construction WHSMP treats dust as a housekeeping item and breathing apparatus as a line in a PPE list. It has no breathing air quality checks, no lone worker arrangement for a blast room, no process for identifying lead or chromate before an old coating is removed, and no health monitoring schedule. For a blasting business, those absences are the whole problem.
Councils and principal contractors letting blasting and coating packages often read the signed policy and then go straight to health. They want to see how silica and lead exposure are assessed, how health monitoring and blood lead testing are arranged, and how existing coatings are identified before removal. The plan gives them the rated register entries, the safe work procedures behind them and the registers where monitoring and training are recorded.
Insurers and site safety advisers tend to look next at breathing air and lone work, because a carbon monoxide event inside an enclosure is both severe and invisible. The plan sets out how air supply quality is checked, how someone inside the blast room is monitored, and what the emergency plan and drill record say about retrieving them. The contractor section covers compressor hire, scaffolders and waste removal crews, and the tender cover sheet shows a panel where each requirement is answered.
A council bridge or park furniture recoating package asks each tenderer for a WHS management plan with health monitoring arrangements. A yard that can show a blasting SWMS and a respirator fit test sheet, but no plan, is scored down or excluded before anyone reads its coating specification.
On a principal contractor's project the problem shows up at induction. Your blaster is ready to start on existing steelwork and the site safety adviser asks whether the old paint has been tested for lead, who holds the blood lead results and how the air supply to the helmet was checked that morning. If the answers are verbal, the crew is stood down until they are written, and the program slips on your account.
The event that no business recovers from easily is a collapse inside the blast room: a blaster found unconscious from carbon monoxide in the air line, with no one having checked on them for an hour. The regulator will ask for the risk assessment, the lone work procedure, the air quality records and the incident register for your yard. With nothing written down beforehand, you cannot show the due diligence you believe you exercised, and the conversation turns on what should have been in place.
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.