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Joinery JSA template Australia

Ground-floor cabinet install is usually a JSA job: manual handling, cutting dust, drilling into walls. It is not a SWMS unless you hit high-risk construction work — a fall greater than 2 m, live electrical, asbestos in the wall. This page is a laundry and butler’s pantry in Geelong, not the Penrith kitchen already filled out on the JSA template.

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Why this is not the Penrith kitchen

The JSA template page already has a filled kitchen install in Penrith NSW — timber studs, driveway unload, track saw in the yard. This page is a laundry and butler’s pantry in a new duplex in Geelong: masonry walls, a slope to the street, a trough already set, waterproofing you must not drill through.

Still not HRCW if you stay on the ground floor under 2 m and you don’t chase live services. If the wall hides a live cable you cannot confirm, stop and treat it as electrical HRCW or get it isolated.

Filled example: laundry and pantry, Geelong VIC

Ground-floor duplex. Tall pantry, laundry cabinets, and a laminate bench over an existing trough. Hammer-drill into brick. Victorian OHS citations on the live document when you pick VIC.

Job / task
Install laundry cabinets, tall pantry and laminate bench over trough
Site
New duplex, Geelong VIC 3220
Document
JSA · not HRCW · example only
PPE
Hi-vis, steel-caps, glasses, cut-resistant gloves, P2 and hearing protection when cutting or drilling masonry

Example layout. Different site and task from the Penrith kitchen on the JSA template page. Live services in the wall, or a fall over 2 m: stop — that is not this JSA. Victoria: OHS Act 2004 / OHS Regulations 2017.

StepHazardsControls5×5 risk
1. Confirm setout against the waterproofing certificate and the trough
Responsible: Leading hand
  • Drilling through the wet-area membrane behind the laundry wall
  • Other trades still silicone-ing the ensuite next door
  • Unlevel slab hiding a lip at the laundry door
  • Read the waterproofing cert; mark a no-drill zone behind the trough splash
  • Sign in with the builder; don’t drag carcasses through a live wet area
  • Walk the path; pack a lip before the first trolley run
InitialL3×C3 = 9 Medium
ResidualL2×C2 = 4 Low
2. Unload tall pantry and laundry units from a sloping street
Responsible: All workers
  • Manual handling of tall units on a camber
  • Struck by passing cars on a narrow Geelong street
  • Unit tipping at the slab step
  • Two-person lift; trolley once on the slab; don’t walk the pantry on its side down the camber
  • Spotter to the street; hazard lights; don’t unload in the travel lane
  • Temporary ramp or extra hands at the step
InitialL4×C3 = 12 High
ResidualL2×C3 = 6 Medium
3. Scribe carcasses and cut filler next to the trough
Responsible: Cabinet installer
  • Cuts from the track saw and jigsaw
  • MDF dust in a small laundry
  • Water still in the trough splash zone
  • Cut in the garage with extraction; guards on; no gloves on the rotating blade
  • P2 and glasses; don’t cut in the laundry doorway
  • Keep the trough dry; lids on until the cut is done
InitialL4×C3 = 12 High
ResidualL2×C3 = 6 Medium
4. Fix to masonry, fit the bench, silicone to the splash
Responsible: Leading hand
  • Silica dust from hammer-drilling brick
  • Hitting a pipe behind the laundry wall
  • Overhead handling of the tall pantry before it is packed
  • On-tool extraction or wet; P2; don’t dry-drill a string of holes without controls
  • Stud / pipe finder and as-builts; stop if you hit anything unexpected
  • Two-person stand-up for the pantry; temporary packers until it is plugged
InitialL3×C4 = 12 High
ResidualL2×C3 = 6 Medium

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a joinery JSA template?

Principals often want a written JSA for cabinet install even when a SWMS is not legally required. Ground-floor laundry and pantry units are that job. Wall units over a void, or drilling next to a live board, can change the document.

Is the joinery JSA free?

Trial generate and PDF, no card. Don’t photocopy the Penrith kitchen example or this Geelong laundry onto a different floor plan.

SWMS or JSA for joinery?

Ground-floor, platform under 2 m, isolated services: JSA. Roof soffit, live electrical, ACM in the wall: SWMS for that part. A JSA is not a substitute on HRCW.

NSW, VIC, QLD, WA?

State-aware citations. Victoria uses the OHS Act 2004 and OHS Regulations 2017; the others use WHS. There is no prescribed JSA form in any of them.

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