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  • Area -

  • Conducted on

  • WestConnex M4E - Parramatta Rd Civil

  • M4E - WORKPLACE INSPECTION NO 36: WORK NEAR MOBILE PLANT

Area Supervisor:-

Lead Inspector:-

Other members of the inspection team?

  • Additional auditors

  • Another auditor

  • Have all options been explored to eliminate the need for workers to work near mobile plant?

  • How are people being protected from coming into contact with operating mobile plant?

  • Does the SWMS detail the mobile plant hazards and controls specific to the current activities?

  • Review the SWMS and identify the controls for mobile plant hazards

  • Was a mobile plant pre-start inspection been completed by the operator?

  • Provide a photo for evidence

  • Does the operator hold the required competency specific to the item of plant in use?

  • Check that the Supervisor has completed a workers evacuation for that workers on the mobile plant being operated.

  • Is the Original Equipment Manufacturers Instruction booklet in the cabin of the plant being operated?

  • Take a photo

  • Does the plant have all the safety related devices (e.g. reversing camera, interlocks, slew heights restrictions etc) as detailed in the plant risk assessment?

  • Ask the operator to use the E-Stop to demonstrate the machine shuts down.

  • Take a photo of the operator performing this task

  • Has a Plant Operating Zone been established around all operating mobile plant?

  • Are pedestrian exclusion zones delineated with appropriate physical barriers?

  • What are the physical barriers being used in the area?

  • What are the controls being implemented for use in the POZ area?

  • Is the plant in good operating condition (i.e. free from visible damage, clean, components functioning)?

  • Take a photo of the plant

  • Is the plant being operated in a safe manner (ie as directed, within speed limits, seat belts worn, no mobile phone usage, obeying signs etc)?

  • Are light and heavy vehicles appropriately separated?

  • How are mobile plant and light vehicles being separated?

  • Is there a Vehicle Movement Plan available at the work site and being complied with? Does the VMP take into account workers and members of the public

  • Take a photo of the current VMP

  • Has a reliable means of communication been established?

  • What means of communication is being used?

  • Action required?
  • Action

  • Allocated to

  • Action due

  • Lead Inspector to sign

  • Other members of the inspection team to sign:

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