Excavation / Earthmoving WHS Documents in Tasmania
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Excavation / earthmovings working in Tasmania need a core WHS document set built around a site-specific SWMS for each high risk activity, cited to the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas). In Tasmania the regulator is WorkSafe Tasmania, and the duty to prepare a SWMS before high risk construction work sits in WHS Regulations 2022 (Tas) reg 299. The documents are the same as any state; what must be correct here is the legislation each one cites.
The WHS documents a excavation / earthmoving needs in Tasmania
- ✓ A site-specific SWMS for each high risk activity, cited to the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas) (WHS Regulations 2022 (Tas) reg 299)
- ✓ A SWMS register indexing every document, version and review date
- ✓ High risk work licences and excavation / earthmoving trade licences recognised in Tasmania
- ✓ Safety Data Sheets for hazardous chemicals, and a chemical register
- ✓ Site induction record and daily sign-on / SWMS acknowledgement sheets
The SWMS a excavation / earthmoving usually needs
One SWMS per high risk construction work activity. The Trade SWMS Pack generates all of them, cited to Tasmania law:
- ✓ Trench excavation deeper than 1.5 m with shoring or benching
- ✓ Bulk excavation with excavator and truck movements
- ✓ Excavation near underground services (locate and pothole)
- ✓ Working near overhead powerlines
- ✓ Excavation adjacent to roads and traffic corridors
- ✓ Footing, pier and shaft excavation
- ✓ Backfilling and compaction with mobile plant
- ✓ Spotter and exclusion zone procedures around plant
The Tasmania law behind it
| Regulator | WorkSafe Tasmania |
| Principal Act | Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas) |
| Regulations | Work Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas) |
| Duty to prepare a SWMS | WHS Regulations 2022 (Tas) reg 299 |
| High risk construction work defined in | WHS Regulations 2022 (Tas) reg 291 |
Tasmania remade its regulations as the WHS Regulations 2022, replacing the 2012 version, so current SWMS duties are cited to the 2022 Regulations and enforced by WorkSafe Tasmania.
Tasmania's industrial manslaughter offence commenced on 2 October 2024, with maximum penalties of 21 years imprisonment for an individual and an $18 million fine for a body corporate. That is the enforcement backdrop your WHS document set has to stand up to on a Tasmania site.
The hazards these documents have to control
A excavation / earthmoving SWMS in Tasmania is judged on whether it names and controls the hazards the trade actually meets:
- ⚠ Trench and excavation collapse
- ⚠ Underground service strikes
- ⚠ Overhead powerlines
- ⚠ Powered mobile plant near workers on foot
- ⚠ Traffic on adjacent roads
- ⚠ Water ingress
The high risk work that triggers a excavation / earthmoving's SWMS
- ✓ Work in or near a shaft or trench deeper than 1.5 m, or a tunnel
- ✓ Work in an area with movement of powered mobile plant
- ✓ Work on, in or adjacent to a road, railway or other traffic corridor in use
- ✓ Work on or near energised electrical installations or services
Every SWMS a excavation / earthmoving needs in Tasmania, in one go
The Trade SWMS Pack generates all 8 SWMS above from one questionnaire, cited to Tasmania law, plus the register, toolbox talks and sign-on sheets, for A$179.
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