Safe work method statements (SWMS)

• Duty holders
• Purpose of a safe work method statement (SWMS)
• What should be in a safe work method statement (SWMS)?
• Preparing
• Generic safe work method statement (SWMS)
• Compliance with safe work method statement (SWMS)
• Providing information and instruction
• Safe work method statement (SWMS) must be kept
• Review of safe work method statement

Duty holders

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) carrying out any high risk work in connection with a construction project is required under the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (WHS Regulation) to:

• ensure that a safe work method statement (SWMS) is prepared before the proposed work starts
• make arrangements to ensure that the high risk construction work is carried out in accordance with the SWMS
• ensure that a copy of the SWMS is given to the principal contractor before the work starts
• ensure that a SWMS is reviewed and revised if necessary
• keep a copy of the SWMS until the high risk construction work is completed.

Ref:

https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/construction/health-and-wellbeing-at-work/safe-work-method-statements

tether /ˈteð·ər/

tether noun [ C ] us ​ /ˈteð·ər/

a rope, chain, or other device used to attach a person or animal to a fixed object

tether
verb [ T ] us ​ /ˈteð·ər/


Asthma kept him tethered to an oxygen tank.

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tether
noun [ C ] uk ​ /ˈteð.ər/ us ​ /ˈteð.ɚ/ ​
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tether

a rope or chain used to tie, especially an animal, to a post or other fixed place, usually so that it can move freely within a small area

tether verb uk ​ /ˈteð.ər/ us ​ /ˈteð.ɚ/
tether verb (FASTEN)
​
[ T ] to tie something, especially an animal to a post or other fixed place, with a rope or chain:
Do not tether the goats and do not keep them indoors.
A harness would have helped tether him to the boat.


tether verb (MOBILE PHONE)
​

[ T or I ] specialized internet & telecoms to use a mobile phone as a wireless internet connection to which you can connect other devices, or to be able to be used in this way:
You can tether your phone for use as a modem.
This particular phone does not tether.

02 B Mirror

Transcript:

Prime Minister  Michael Callow,
Prime Minister Michael Callow, my.... my life...
my life depends on you.
If you do not do precisely as instructed . . .by four pm this afternoon, I will be. . .
. . . I will be executed.

PM: What are you doing?
Keep it going.

Prime Minister, at this point I think it's important to say that we are 100% certain that this is indeed Princess Susannah. Her car was intercepted shortly after midnight returning from the wedding of a college friend of hers.

She'd insisted on going.

But you had security on her?

Two PPOs, still unconscious,  heavy sedative, close range, each with a single puncture wound, no sign of struggle.

PM: What do they want? Money?

Vocabs

Callow /Kal low/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJNj984iz0

Puncture ˈpʌŋk.tʃɚ/ 'punc ture/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/puncture



noun [ C ] uk ​ /ˈpʌŋk.tʃər/ us ​ /ˈpʌŋk.tʃɚ/
​
a small hole made by a sharp object, especially in a tyre:
My bike has had two punctures in the last three weeks.
She had a puncture wound in her arm, from a wasp sting.