TA-FN-01 · Fencing
Fencing - Master Task Analysis
All commercial fencing works including boundary, security, temporary, rural and electric fencing, gates and sediment fence interfaces where task-specific TA are not required.
What you get
One editable Word document covering fencing - master task analysis for Fencing: 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 useWorking on other people's sites, occupied premises or around the public |
| Locate buried services & set out the fence line | Striking buried power, gas, water or comms when digging post holes - fence lines follow service routes, causing electrocution, gas escape or flooding |
| Dig post holes with powered auger / post-hole borer | Entanglement in rotating auger or PTO drive - clothing, gloves or limbs drawn in causing severe injury or deathOpen post holes causing trips or fallsManual digging strain in rocky or root-bound ground |
| Mix & place concrete footings | Wet concrete alkali burns, dermatitis and eye splash; silica dust from bagged mix |
| Handle & install posts, panels & rails | Manual handling strain and cuts from heavy posts, sheet panels, rails, sleepers and wire coils |
| Cut & grind steel posts, rails & mesh | Angle grinder / cut-off saw - sparks, cuts, hot metal, kickback, noise and treated-timber dust |
| Strain & tension fencing wire | Stored-energy wire snap-back from strainers - whip causing eye, face and laceration injuries |
| Manage existing fencing & boundary / public interface | Disturbing old asbestos-cement (super six) fence sheets releasing fibresDisputes, dogs, children or the public entering the work area |
| Work near roads & traffic | Struck by vehicles working on front boundaries and rural road verges |
| Clean up, secure & demobilise | Wire offcuts, open holes and unsecured runs left as hazards |
Each hazard comes with its control measures, an initial and residual risk rating and the person responsible, ready to check against your job.
Preview the first 6 pagesSee the layout, the work screening table and the sign-on block
Preview pages are watermarked. The highlighted fields are the ones you complete for your site. This is the Fencing Master; the task documents in the pack follow the same structure.
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 Fencing Task Analysis
This is the Master for Fencing, covering the general activities within its stated scope. The trade covers post hole boring and services, timber, mesh and pool fencing, gates and hardware, work on boundaries and berms.
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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 fencing - master task analysis, 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.