TA-CL-07 · Cladding & Weatherboards
Rope Access Support Operations Task Analysis
Industrial rope access works and ground support for facade inspection, minor repairs and sealant works by certified rope access technicians.
What you get
One editable Word document covering rope access support operations for Cladding & Weatherboards: the task broken into steps, the hazards at each step, the controls, and a 5 by 5 risk matrix with residual ratings. Site fields and a crew sign-on are built in.
A Task Analysis is also known as a JSA (Job Safety Analysis) or JSEA. It covers each step of the job, the hazards and the controls.
The steps and hazards it covers
| Step | Hazards |
|---|---|
| Plan, prepare and confirm competency | Workers without the required training, competence or authorisation performing the task - incidents arising from lack of skill, competency or authorityDefective or unsafe plant, powered equipment, leads or attachments failing in use |
| Rig anchors and lines | Anchor or rigging failure under load - uncontrolled descent and fatal fall |
| Descend and work on ropes | Equipment misuse or device failure during descent and positioning - fatal fall from height |
| Control the drop zone below rope work | Tools and debris dropped from rope positions - fatal head injuries to persons below |
| Coordinate the occupied building interface | Occupants opening windows onto rope lines or interfering with ropes - rope displacement and cut or trapped lines |
| Use chemicals and sealants while on ropes | Sealants, cleaners and repair products spilling onto suspended technicians - chemical contact with no immediate washing |
| Maintain communication with ground support | Loss of communication between technicians and ground crew - delayed response to incidents and exclusion zone breaches |
| Manage heat and suspension duration | Prolonged suspension in full-body harnesses in heat and sun - heat stress and circulation impairment |
| Demobilise and clean up | De-rigging ropes and recovering equipment - dropped equipment and trip hazards |
Each hazard comes with its control measures, an initial and residual risk rating and the person responsible, ready to check against your job.
How to use it
Read it against the actual job. Delete the hazards that are not there, add the ones that are, fill the site fields, then brief the crew and get every name on the sign-on. A document nobody has read is a piece of paper. One the crew helped finish supports worker consultation and records the agreed work method. Engagement under HSWA ss58 to 59 is an ongoing process of seeking and considering workers’ views, so the signed page is evidence of part of it rather than the whole duty.
About Cladding & Weatherboards Task Analysis
This is one of the Task Analysis documents written for Cladding & Weatherboards crews. The trade covers weatherboard, fibre cement and sheet cladding, cavity battens, flashings, soffits, work from scaffold.
See every Cladding & Weatherboards document, or the whole pack for $199.99. Need 5 or more templates from this trade? The pack costs less than buying them individually, and saves $49.96 at 5.
Where it sits in the law
New Zealand does not require a document of this name. The duty is to manage risk so far as is reasonably practicable (HSWA s36) and to engage workers on it (ss58 to 59). Use a Task Analysis to plan the work, identify the hazards and communicate the controls to your crew. That is also how you evidence both duties.
WorkSafe names “a task analysis, safe work method statement (SWMS), job safety analysis or equivalent planning document” as the same thing done under different headings, and Site Safe titles one of its own SSSP forms “Task Analysis (TA) and Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS)”. So if the paperwork you have been sent asks for a TA, a SWMS or a JSA, this is the document it means, written to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Only the name changes; the hazards, controls and ratings are the same either way.
Where this sits in your SSSP
A Site-Specific Safety Plan (SSSP) covers the whole job: who is on site, how hazards get reported, what happens in an emergency. A Task Analysis covers one task inside it. They are not the same document. Site Safe’s SSSP pack runs to ten forms, and the Task Analysis is Form 10, filed behind the plan itself.
So a main contractor who asks which SSSP pack you are using, and then asks for a TA covering rope access support operations, has asked you for two separate things. This is the second one. Keep it with your SSSP for the job and bring it to the pre-start briefing, because the value is in the crew having read it before the work starts.