Use this customisable safe work method statement for lawn mowing for free now.

Lawn mowing can be dangerous work at the best of times, but poorly trained people and lacklustre safety processes can lead to serious injuries during seemingly normal lawn mowing operations.

One of the best documents for ensuring that your company, teams and workers are all up to speed on the best and safest ways to do lawn mowing (and similar activities) is the safe work method statement or SWMS.

A safe work method statement for lawn mowing serves as the source of truth for how your company and teams engage in lawn mowing activities safely. Using a template like you see here, you can document all of the pre-requisites, training and safety steps required to even begin lawn mowing, as well as outline and share the known hazards and control measures put in place to make the activity as safe as possible.

This customisable lawn mowing SWMS comes pre-populated with a number of the most common job steps, hazards and controls for lawn mowing, but you can edit all of the sections and contents of the SWMS - and make as many variations of the SWMS as you like - in seconds.

Unlike time-consuming and messy paper-based, PDF, word and excel SWMS, this method statement can be accessed, viewed and signed off from anywhere using any device (mobile, tablet etc.). This means that everyone on site or in the field as well as the office has the controls and capabilities to read and acknowledge your safe work method statement.

Eliminate avoidable injuries and ensure more of your people are approaching law mower safety in the right way using a reliable SWMS.