They are asking for my SWMS?

1. Open Prestart, then SWMS. The row under it shows the parts of the statement.
2. If the job has no statement yet, the row shows four ways to get one: From a standard, Write one, Copy one and Upload yours.
3. If the job has a statement, the row shows Details, Scope and law, Steps, Crew and kit, Review, Sign-on and Add another. An uploaded statement has Overview, Sign-on and Add another.
4. A draft opens on the first part with something still to fix. Each part shows a count of what is left in it.
5. Use Back and Next at the foot of each part to go through Details, Scope and law, Steps and Crew and kit, in that order.
6. The last step is Review. It shows each part as Done or with what is left, and a press to open it. It also has Issue revision, which shows how many things are left to fix until none are left.
7. Steps also has a check for high risk work you answered yes to that no step covers. This check does not stop the issue, because you can write it in your own words. Discard this draft is there too. An issued statement opens on Sign-on.
8. Under Write one, type the tasks this job actually involves, one to a line. YourCA writes the statement around them.
9. It saves to your account as you write. There is no Save button. It opens on the site phone and in the office.
10. Each hazard gets control measures across the whole hierarchy, not only the hard hat at the end. The order is: remove the hazard, replace it, isolate it, engineer it out, then the procedure, then the protective equipment.
11. Section 4 of the document gives the order in which you must consider them. The statement uses that order, so a safety officer can see that you did.
12. YourCA builds section 3 from the work. It is not the same on every statement. The standards and codes of practice come from the hazards your own task lines raised.
13. For example, a trench job cites the excavation code of practice and AS 5488. A roof job cites the falls code and AS/NZS 1891.
14. Each job also gets the few items every job has: the construction work code, the risk management code, AS/NZS ISO 45001, the manufacturer manual for each item of plant, and the safety data sheet for each chemical.
15. The Act and the Regulation on that list come from the state recorded on the job. All eight states and territories are covered.
16. A New South Wales job cites the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2025. A Queensland job cites the 2011 Regulation. A Western Australian job cites the 2022 General Regulations.
17. A Victorian job cites the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 at its own numbers, because Victoria has its own scheme and not the model laws.
18. The statement calls out two states, because their list is not the same eighteen categories. Victoria has nineteen, because it splits the trench and the tunnel into two. The work covered is the same and only the letters differ.
19. The Australian Capital Territory adds one category that no other state has: processing crystalline silica with a power tool. Check that one against your work.
20. Section 6 names the Standard beside each item of protective equipment where one applies: boots to AS/NZS 2210, high visibility to AS/NZS 4602, hearing protection to AS/NZS 1270. It also says a respirator only works after it is fit tested to the person who wears it.
21. Section 8 lists the products actually on your job, with the date of the safety data sheet you hold. Section 9 lists your crew by name, with their tickets and the expiry dates. Section 10 lists every permit the work needs.
22. A prequalification assessor asks for those three sections first. A generic statement never has them.
23. Section 12 is an emergency plan, not a phone list. It gives the assembly point, the nearest hospital, the first aider by name and a rescue plan.
24. If the work involves a fall over 2 metres, the statement does not issue without the rescue plan. A person left hanging in a harness has minutes, and an ambulance is not a rescue.
25. Sometimes a hazard on work with a fall over 2 metres is controlled only by procedure and protective equipment. Then YourCA asks what higher controls you considered, and why they do not work on this job.
26. In Queensland that is the law, and the statement does not issue without it. In other states it is a warning, not a refusal, because no other state has that duty. It is still the most common reason a builder sends back a fall statement.
27. Section 14 is where you write a change made on the day, and who was briefed again. Blank rows print, so the crew can fill them in at the gate. That page makes the statement live, not just filed.
28. YourCA asks you the high risk construction work question. It never decides the answer for you.
29. The eighteen categories are on the Scope and law tab in two groups: the ones still to answer, then the ones you decided.
30. An answered category closes to one line. The line shows your answer, who gave it and the reason you wrote. So the cards on the screen are the decisions still in front of you. If you take an answer back, its card opens again in full.
31. The supervisor and their mobile come from this job's own team. YourCA uses the foreman on the job. If there is none, it uses the site manager, then the leading hand, then the project manager, in that order.
32. If there is nobody like that on the job, it names the owner who signs for your business, with your business phone. Change either if somebody else runs the site.
33. Review each hazard and control before you issue the statement. It is your statement, and your crew signs on to it.
34. When you issue it, YourCA asks you to confirm that you read it. YourCA drafted the statement. YourCA does not approve it, and does not check that anyone works to it. Your business answers for the work.
35. The same declaration prints on the document, so the builder knows exactly who stands behind it.
36. After you issue it, the crew signs on to it. It goes in the prestart pack with the sign-on sheet.
37. While it is a draft, you can change every field on it, including its name. YourCA writes the first version. What you sign is the final version you made.
38. After you issue it, nothing on it can change. This includes the high risk construction work answers.
39. To change it, press Start revision on the statement’s Review. The new revision is a draft that you can edit.
40. The revision you already issued stays exactly as the builder holds it. No sign-on carries across, so the crew signs on again.