The WHS system a tender panel, principal contractor or insurer asks to see: policy, plan, a 57-hazard risk register written for heavy transport equipment manufacturers and tipper and trailer chassis builders, 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: chassis and material receipt, storage and handling; cutting, drilling and material preparation; body and trailer assembly and fit-up; welding on the vehicle and on subassemblies; hoist, tailgate and hydraulic fitting and finishing; 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 heavy transport equipment manufacturers and tipper and trailer chassis builders actually do.
The hazard register is drawn from our truck body and trailer 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 heavy transport equipment manufacturers and tipper and trailer chassis builders 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 truck body and trailer register, with the consequence and, where our calculator rates it, the starting risk given by a Certified Industrial Hygienist before any controls are counted.
Crush injury and fatality from a body or tailgate coming down. Hydraulics leak down, and a hose or seal that has held all morning can fail in a second. Gas struts and springs release with enough force to kill. Safety · inherent risk 5B.
Fuel tank or vapour ignition, air reservoir failure, tyre fire, electrical fire in the loom, and arcing through the vehicle earth path damaging electronics and injuring the welder. A fire in a vehicle in a workshop spreads to the building quickly. Process Safety · inherent risk 5B.
A mixture of fine aluminium and iron oxide is a thermite mixture, which once ignited burns at a temperature no extinguisher will control and reacts with water. Fine aluminium is also combustible in suspension and releases hydrogen when wet. 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.
Rapidly developing workshop fire, burns, loss of premises and stock, business interruption. Process Safety · inherent risk 4C.
A truck body or trailer builder receives chassis and material, cuts, drills and prepares steel and aluminium, assembles and fits up bodies and trailers, welds both on the vehicle and on subassemblies, then fits hoists, tailgates and hydraulics before finishing. Gas, consumables and chemicals are stored and handled on the same floor, and the workshop ventilation and extraction serve every stage. A management plan for this business has to follow a vehicle from the delivery of a bare chassis to the handover of a working tipper or trailer.
The register for this work contains 57 hazards and 449 controls. The most severe are specific to the product. Hoists, tailgates, suspensions and gas struts store energy that can bring a body down without warning, because hydraulics leak down and a seal that held all morning can fail in a second. Hot work on a vehicle with its fuel, air and electrical systems in place risks fuel ignition, air reservoir failure, tyre and loom fires, and arcing through the vehicle earth. Steel and aluminium dust drawn into shared extraction forms a thermite mixture that no extinguisher will control. Forklift traffic, crane lifts, fixed workshop plant and toppling assemblies follow close behind.
A generic construction WHSMP says nothing about any of this. It will not tell your team how to prop a tipper body, how to prepare a chassis for welding with a fuel tank fitted, or why steel and aluminium grinding must not share a dust collector. Those omissions are what a transport client's reviewer notices first.
Council fleet tender panels and transport operators buying bodies and trailers usually start with the signed WHS policy and the named responsibilities, then look for how the builder controls the hazards that could reach them. The plan gives them the register entries for stored energy in hoists and tailgates, the hot work controls for welding on a fitted vehicle, and the safe work procedures that sit behind those ratings.
An insurer reading the same plan tends to go to fire. The combination of sparks near combustibles, fuel on the vehicle and mixed metal dust in extraction is exactly what a property underwriter wants to see addressed, and the register and emergency plan with its drill record show how you have done that. Where welding fume is present, reviewers also check how health hazards are assessed and monitored within your risk process. Finally, the contractor section shows how sign writers, auto electricians or hydraulic fitters coming onto your floor are prequalified, inducted and supervised, and the tender cover sheet maps each panel question to its answer in the plan.
A council or fleet operator issues a tender for a run of tipper bodies, and one of the returnable schedules asks for your WHS management plan. If what you have is a safety policy from years ago and a set of SWMS, the submission is judged non-conforming and the evaluation never reaches your price or your build quality.
Warranty and modification work brings its own version. You send a fitter to a transport depot to repair a tailgate or hoist in place, and the depot's induction asks for your procedure for isolating and propping raised bodies. Without it, the job stops at the gate, the truck stays off the road and the operator remembers who held it up.
Then there is the event itself. A body settles onto someone working underneath, or a fire starts in the extraction ducting after a shift of mixed steel and aluminium grinding. The regulator will ask what the risk assessment said, which procedure applied, who was trained in it, and what the incident register shows about earlier near misses on your floor. If those records were never kept, you have no written basis for the due diligence you believe you showed, and you are rebuilding it after the fact under the least favourable conditions.
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.