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SWMS builder

Free. No account, no email, nothing uploaded.

Start from a trade none Ticks the categories that usually apply and writes three rows to edit. It cannot know your site, your plant or your people, which is the half that decides whether the document is any good.
One activity per statement. A SWMS covering everything on the job covers nothing usefully, and a reviewer will say so.
Which high risk construction work is involved 0 of 18 A SWMS is required for these specifically. Tick everything that applies: most jobs involve more than one, and the missed one is usually powered mobile plant moving nearby.
The work, step by step Every task needs the last column filled in. It is the one the regulation asks for by name and the one that separates a SWMS from a method statement with an Australian title.
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Who checks, when, and what happens if it is wrong. "As required" is what gets a SWMS sent back.
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Who checks, when, and what happens if it is wrong. "As required" is what gets a SWMS sent back.
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Who checks, when, and what happens if it is wrong. "As required" is what gets a SWMS sent back.
Who and where
Consulting the workers doing the work is a duty in its own right, not a formality, and a statement written without it is usually obvious to whoever reviews it.
Where it stands 0 tasks
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things still needed before this is a complete SWMS.

  • Say what work this SWMS covers.
  • Choose at least one kind of high risk construction work. A SWMS is the document required for that work specifically, so without one selected there is nothing for it to be a SWMS about.
  • Add at least one task.

This produces the document. Whether it is adequate for your actual work, plant and site is the judgement of whoever prepares and signs it, and of the principal contractor who accepts it. Nothing here makes it compliant.

Built in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, no account, and the finished PDF carries your own branding rather than ours.

Worth doing

  • Nobody is recorded as consulted. Consultation with the workers doing the work is a duty in its own right, and a SWMS written without it is usually obvious to whoever reviews it.
  • Nobody is named as having prepared it.
  • No site or project named.

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A SWMS is not a method statement with an Australian title

This is the difference that gets statements rejected, so be precise about because most free templates get it wrong.

A safe work method statement has to identify which high risk construction workis involved, the hazards arising from it, the control measures, and how those control measures will be implemented, monitored and reviewed.

That last part is the tell. A UK method statement describes a sequence of work and names who is responsible, and it is a perfectly good document for what it is. It does not have a column saying who checks the controls, how often, and what happens when something has been altered. Download almost any free SWMS template and you will find a method statement with the title changed and that column missing.

So this tool will not treat a task as finished without it. Not to be awkward, but because that is the field the regulation asks for by name and the one a reviewer looks for first.

Which work triggers it

A SWMS is not required for all construction work. It is required for eighteen defined kinds of high risk construction work, and the picker above lists all of them.

Most jobs involve more than one, and the one people miss is almost always work in an area where powered mobile plant is moving. A telehandler crossing the area you are working in puts your job in scope even if nothing else does.

The other two worth reading twice are the ones with numbers attached, because the number is the trigger rather than a guide: a risk of falling more than two metres, and a shaft or trench with an excavated depth greater than 1.5 metres.

Two metres, or three

Two, almost everywhere. The model WHS Regulations set it at more than two metres and most jurisdictions have worked to that for years.

South Australia was the exception at three metres and lowered it to two on 1 July 2026, bringing it into line. Queensland is the one remaining difference and only partly: three metres for housing construction, two metres for every other kind of construction work. If you are working on houses in Queensland, that is the one number on this page to check against your own situation.

Victoria is a different statute

Victoria never adopted the model WHS laws. The duty there sits under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017, and it is regulation 327 that requires a SWMS for high risk construction work.

Its list runs to nineteen items rather than eighteen. The fall threshold is the same two metres. There is a Victoria option above which states this on the finished document, and the honest position is that you should read regulation 327 against the list here rather than assume they match item for item.

Consultation is not a signature box

The people who will do the work have to be consulted in preparing the statement, and told what it says before they start. That is a duty in its own right.

It also produces a better document. A statement written at a desk describes the job somebody imagines; the crew will tell you the scaffold does not reach, the exclusion zone blocks the only route to the compound, and the sequence assumes the slab is clear when it never is. Reviewers can usually tell which kind they are reading.

What this does not do

It does not make your SWMS compliant, and nothing that costs nothing can promise that. It produces the document with the fields the regulation names, and it will not let you skip the one most templates omit.

Whether the content is right for your actual work, plant, site and crew is the judgement of the person who prepares and signs it, and of the principal contractor who accepts it. That responsibility does not move because a form was filled in online.

The names on a SWMS are real people

A SWMS names the workers who signed it and the person who will monitor the control measures, and it has to stay available at the workplace for as long as the high risk work is going on. So it is a document about identifiable people that gets handed round a site and photographed by whoever asks for it.

The one thing you can control is how many copies exist. This builds it in your browser and writes the PDF straight to your machine, with your own logo on it. There is no account, no email address and no copy here, so there is nothing to ask us to delete later.

Common questions

When is a SWMS legally required?

Before high risk construction work starts. The model WHS Regulations define eighteen kinds of work that trigger it, and if your job involves any of them a SWMS is required rather than recommended. It also has to be available at the workplace while the work is going on, and reviewed if the work, the plant or the people change.

Is a method statement the same thing as a SWMS?

No. Confusing the two is what gets statements sent back. A UK method statement describes a sequence of work. A SWMS has to identify which high risk construction work is involved, the hazards, the control measures, and how those controls will be implemented, monitored and reviewed. That last part is required by the regulation and most templates do not have a column for it. A method statement with an Australian title is not a SWMS.

Is the fall threshold two metres or three?

Two metres under the model WHS Regulations, and that applies almost everywhere. South Australia used three metres until it lowered the threshold to two on 1 July 2026. Queensland is the one remaining exception and only partly: three metres for housing construction, two metres for all other construction work.

Does this work for Victoria?

Mostly, with a caveat the tool states on the page. Victoria never adopted the model WHS laws, so the duty there sits under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017, regulation 327, and its list of high risk construction work runs to nineteen items rather than eighteen. The fall threshold is the same at two metres. Tick the Victoria box and the document says so, but check regulation 327 against the list before relying on it there.

Do I have to consult the workers?

Yes. Consultation with the people who will carry out the work is a duty in its own right, not a formality, and a statement written in an office without it tends to be obvious to whoever reviews it. There is a field for recording who was consulted and when.

Does using this make my SWMS compliant?

No, and no tool can. It produces the document with the fields the regulation asks for. Whether the content is adequate for your actual work, plant, site and people is the judgement of the person who prepares and signs it, and of the principal contractor who accepts it. What this does is make sure you are not missing a field the regulation names.

Is the SWMS uploaded anywhere?

No. The document is built in your browser and the PDF is written on your own machine. No account, no email address, and no copy of your site paperwork on anybody else’s server.