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 Working On Platforms, Trestles, Or Gantries Risk Assessment includes the following job steps and related potential hazards:
- 1. Preparation
- Slips
- trips and falls
- Equipment malfunction
- 2. Inspection of work area
- Falling objects
- Unsafe structures
- Electrical risks
- 3. Setting up platform
- Improper set up
- Working at height
- Falling equipment
- 4. Using ladder
- Incorrect use
- Falls
- Unstable ladders
- 5. Moving along trestle
- Poorly maintained pathway
- Obstructions
- Fall from height
- 6. Loading and unloading
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Dropped objects
- 7. Maintenance tasks
- Electric shocks
- Entanglement
- Uncontrolled release of energy
- 8. Mechanical work with hand tools
- Hand and finger injuries
- Eye injury
- Noise exposure
- 9. Electrical installations
- Shock
- Fires
- Burns
- 10. Welding operations
- Eye injuries
- Burns
- Fumes inhalation
- 11. Painting and surface preparation
- Inhalation of fumes
- Skin irritation
- Fire hazards
- 12. Use of powered equipment
- Noise
- Vibration
- Entanglement
- 13. Working in confined spaces
- Lack of oxygen
- Toxic substances
- Difficulty escaping from the area in an emergency
- 14. Cleaning up operations
- Manual handling risks
- Contact with harmful substances
- Slips
- Trips and falls
- 15. Demobilisation
- Struck by moving plant or vehicles
- Pinned between plant
- structures or other objects
- Falls from height