A Safe Work Method Statement is required to be submitted where a worker is completing High Risk Construction Works. These include, but are not limited to:
- Where there is a risk of a person falling more than two metres
- At workplaces where there is any movement of powered mobile plant
- On or near energised electrical installations or services
- Involving demolition
- Involving tilt-up or precast concrete
- Involving removal or likely disturbance of asbestos
- Structural alterations that require temporary support to prevent collapse
- Involving a trench or shaft if the excavated depth is more than 1.5 metres
- In, over or adjacent to water or other liquids where there is a risk of drowning
- In an area where there are artificial extremes of temperature
- On or near pressurised gas distribution mains or piping
