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Gardening & Garden Maintenance Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)<\/h1>\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUse this template now\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t

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This smart Gardening SWMS comes pre-built with all the sections you will to create and maintain a good SWMS with sections for all of your prerequisites, garden maintenance job steps, and of course worker sign-offs. Edit and modify this now to suit your gardening operations.<\/p>\r\n

This SWMS is cloud-based – can be accessed, read and signed off in the field on a mobile or tablet or back on a computer. Sign off, instantly update in real-team, and the company maintains a single source of SWMS truth which it can store or export whenever required.<\/p>\r\n

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~10,000 employees<\/p>\r\n

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~10 employees<\/p>\r\n

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~200 employees<\/p>\r\n

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How can a safety SWMS ensure safety for garden workers?<\/h3>\r\n\t

Gardening can be hazardous jobs for the workers engaging in these garden maintenance activities, the companies managing these workers, and other people and stakeholders working or living around gardening works.<\/p>\r\n

Because of the inherent hazards involved with this type of work, a safe work method statement is required to outline the best and safest approach to performing these works.<\/p>\r\n

A gardening safe work method statement (SWMS) works in the same way as all SWMS, it provides a reliable and compliant framework for documenting how this company and its workers approach an activity – in this case gardening – from training all the way through to performing the different job steps.<\/p>\r\n\t

What is the typical structure of a SWMS for Gardening activities?<\/h3>\r\n\tThere isn’t a universal or strict format for a Gardening & Garden Maintenance Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS). It actually varies depending on the company preferences or their company policies, but for as long as it follows the regulations (Regulation 299 of the WHS Regulations), then you should be set.\r\nA Gardening SWMS typically includes:\r\n
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  1. General details about the job site, and the description of work<\/li>\r\n
  2. Hazard identification section, risk assessment, and their control measures<\/li>\r\n
  3. Step-by-step procedure\/breakdown of tasks<\/li>\r\n
  4. All the PPEs required and emergency procedures<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\t

    When is a SWMS legally required for gardening companies, as per WHS guidelines?<\/h3>\r\n\t

    Take note, a Gardening & Garden SWMS is legally required, as per WHS regulations, if your gardening works fall under the categories of the High-Risk Construction Work (HRCW) as laid out under Regulation 299. Like, for example, if your gardening works involve:<\/p>\r\n