Ensure your workplace remains safe and compliant with our versatile risk assessment templates, designed to meet Australia’s Work Health and Safety (WHS) standards. These professionally crafted documents follow a consistent, structured approach that can be adapted for any industry or task.
Key Features:
• Uniform Structure: Each template includes clearly defined sections for job steps, potential hazards, risk matrices, control measures, and emergency procedures.
• Comprehensive Hazard Identification: Systematically record foreseeable hazards at every stage of your work process—from preparation and equipment checks to final debriefing.
• Customisable Details: Easily insert your organisation’s information, project specifics, and relevant legislative references, ensuring the document meets your unique operational needs.
• Regulatory Compliance: Built to align with Australia’s WHS legislation and Codes of Practice, these templates include guidance notes and reference links to help you stay compliant.
• Emergency Preparedness & Documentation: Integrated sections for emergency response planning and thorough documentation review ensure all critical safety information is captured and easily accessible.
Whether you’re managing a construction site, operating machinery, or overseeing any other workplace activity, our generic risk assessment templates provide a robust framework for identifying risks, implementing effective control measures, and maintaining a safe working environment. Download today to streamline your risk management processes and promote a culture of safety in your organisation.
The Underpinning Works Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Trips
- slips and falls
- contact with live electricity
- 2. Site assessment
- Unknown underground utilities
- exposure to hazardous substances
- 3. Setting foundations
- Falling objects
- manual handling injuries
- exposure to noise
- 4. Erecting formwork
- Falls from height
- cuts and abrasions
- caught between objects
- 5. Placing reinforcement bars
- Manual handling injuries
- cuts and abrasions
- 6. Concreting
- Exposure to wet cement
- manual handling injuries
- 7. Curing
- Chemical exposure
- slip and trip hazards
- 8. Formwork removal
- Falls from height
- struck by falling objects
- 9. Surface finishing
- Dust inhalation
- repetitive strain injury
- noise exposure
- 10. Cleaning and maintenance
- Slips
- trips and falls
- exposure to hazardous substances
- 11. Equipment inspection
- Machinery malfunction hazards
- electrical hazards
- 12. Backfilling
- Trench collapse
- struck by moving machinery
- 13. Compaction
- Heavy machinery accidents
- noise exposure
- 14. Surface restoration
- Working in traffic
- working near utilities
- 15. Final site clean-up
- Manual handling injuries
- exposure to cleaning chemicals
- falls from height
- 16. Safety meeting
- Trip and fall hazards
- manual handling injuries
- 17. Task review
- Inadequate lighting
- trip hazards
- 18. Documentation processing
- Ergonomic issues
- eye strain from screen time
- 19. Equipment storage
- Manual handling injuries
- falling objects
- 20. Completion report submission
- Data security risk
- ergonomic issues