Joinery and Shaping Machinery Operation SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers workshop setup, timber preparation, machinery inspection, operation, maintenance and clean-down for joinery and shaping work. It supports work planning and risk management for moving cutters, rotating components, ejected material, dust, noise, electrical hazards and manual handling.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Set up the workshop and maintain safe access
• Receive, handle and prepare timber
• Inspect machines before use
• Set fences, cutters and other tooling
• Plane and joint timber
• Mould, profile, rebate, route and cut joinery
• Bore, mortice and tenon timber
• Apply edge banding and forming
• Turn timber on a lathe
• Use portable tools and pyrography
• Change blades, maintain equipment and clean down

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out joinery and shaping machinery operations.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

The template includes references relevant to the documented work, including:

• Applicable Commonwealth, state or territory WHS/OHS legislation and regulations.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction. It requires plant risks to be controlled using the hierarchy of controls and identifies interlocked guarding and isolation as key controls.
• Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Electrical Risks in the Workplace, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction.
• AS/NZS 4024 Safety of machinery series; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 1337.1 Personal eye and face protection; AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 Respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 2161.1 Occupational protective gloves.
• Model WHS laws and model Codes of Practice are guidance and do not automatically have legal effect in every Australian jurisdiction; confirm local requirements before issue.

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Standard SWMS Features (Click to Expand)

• Task-specific job steps, hazards and control measures
• Initial and residual risk ratings
• Assigned responsible persons for each job step
• Plant, equipment and PPE requirements where applicable
• Permits, qualifications and high-risk construction work details where applicable
• Worker consultation, sign-off and review sections