Lighting SWMS

SWMS Lighting

Safe work method statement SWMS for electrical lighting maintenance: 

• Provides critical WHS information and safety instructions for workers to undertake lighting preventive maintenance without risk to health and safety

• Ensures workers can identify hazards and manage risks involved with the maintenance of lighting

• Provides workers with information, instruction, and training for lighting maintenance

Lighting Maintenance SWMS

SWMS document for preventive lighting maintenance focuses on hazard identification, risk assessment and control procedures per best practice guidelines for how to write a SWMS. 

• Electrical safety at workplace for how to do electrical maintenance per a risk assessment of electrical work

Lighting SWMS Content 

SWMS are specific to a process with the SWMS content of the lighting SWMS addressing the health and safety issues relating to: 

• WHS Consultation 

• Risk assessment of workplace

• Health and safety planning

• Environmental hazards in the workplace

• Implementation of controls for electrical lighting maintenance

• Health and safety information for employees to manage risks with lighting maintenance services

• Pre operational checks on lighting testing equipment used to test lighting

• Electrical safety plan for the preventive maintenance of lighting identifies lighting hazards with control measures for electrical work per workplace lighting guidelines

• Electrical safety isolation procedures for lighting circuits

• Electrical testing equipment, e.g. testing lighting circuit with multimeter

• Insulated tools used in preventive maintenance for lighting, e.g. electricians testing tools

• Contact with energised electrical equipment resulting in electrocution and electrical shock

• Electrical spotter to warn persons working in the vicinity of energised electrical equipment, e.g. electrical hazards

• Visual inspection of lighting in a workplace to ensure electrical safety and compliance with electrical health and safety legislation

• Test lighting per standards for lighting in the workplace, e.g. operation of residual current device, workplace lighting levels

• Testing emergency lighting per emergency lighting maintenance requirements with results documented in the workplace's emergency lighting testing log book

• Preventive maintenance of lighting in the workplace is cleaning covers of light fixtures, globes and any lighting fixtures repair.

• Record the results of a workplace lighting test and any electrical lighting repair in the lighting maintenance report

• Working at heights, e.g. mobile scaffold

• Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace 

• Hazardous manual handling tasks 

• PPE requirements for electrical lighting maintenance

• Health and safety training for workers 

• Workplace housekeeping 

• Legislative and regulatory requirements 

• Monitoring compliance in the workplace 

• Includes risk matrix table      

WHS Reporting Requirements 

WHS Record keeping and reporting obligations for compliance with WHS legislative requirements for a SWMS require a person conducting a business or undertaking PCBU to maintain WHS records. 

A PCBU must retain health and safety records for a lighting SWMS, which would include: 

• Risk assessment form template to record unidentified hazards, potential risks and specific control measures

• Change control management form for the communication of controls to be implemented for identified hazards 

• SWMS Sign off sheet for high risk construction work activity to which the safe work method statement relates 

Ready to Use Lighting SWMS

Save time and money with the SWMS template for electrical lighting maintenance. 

SWMS Compliance with Legislative and Regulatory Requirements is simple 

• We embed the business details and logo you supply in the safe work method statement for ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation 

• We email you the ready to use safe work method statement SWMS 

All you have to do is 

• Complete the principal contractor details or PCBU details 

• Specify the workplace address to which the SWMS relates

• Nominate your contact person 

• Complete WHS/OHS forms used in the workplace, e.g. risk assessment form

Safety Toolbox Talks 

• A lighting maintenance SWMS makes for an excellent toolbox talk topic at electrical safety toolbox talks