Gate Ready for builders
Start from a job you do every week, check the fall, propping and asbestos controls, add photos of the site and get your crew to sign. Your first SWMS is free.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Built for patchy reception.
Gate Ready is a drafting tool. It doesn't certify or check compliance, and you review every SWMS.
Sample SWMS, page 1 of 9
Page 1 is above. Here are the site plan and a marked-up photo page. The sample is for a two-storey extension on an occupied 1960s house in New South Wales, with temporary props, scaffold and an asbestos check. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Builder when you set up the app and the common tasks match your work. Each one comes with the steps and hazards already suggested. You check and change them.
Build a new single-storey house: footings and slab, timber frame, roof and lock-up, with an excavator for site works.
Build a two-storey extension on an existing house, removing part of a load-bearing wall with temporary propping, from scaffold.
Internal renovation of an existing house: strip out, new linings, fit-off and painting.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. Common tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together.
When the job involves props, scaffold or an old house, Gate Ready adds the hazards (a fall from an edge, collapse during alterations, and asbestos) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
A fall of more than 2 m, structural alterations that need temporary support, demolishing a load-bearing element and work that is likely to disturb asbestos are all on the model national list of high risk construction work. Some states add their own items, so check your regulator. Scaffold, an elevating work platform and rescue lines are in the list too. You choose the ones that fit your job. Gate Ready suggests, you review.
Houses built before 1990 can contain asbestos, and houses renovated up to 2004 may too. Gate Ready asks when the building was built and whether you’ll cut, drill or remove existing materials. Asbestos was banned in Australia from 31 December 2003, so anything built or renovated before 2004 may contain it.
Take photos of the front, the side access and the back of the job before you start. Mark up the power lines, scaffold, propped openings and exclusion zones, and pin each photo to a site plan. They print with your SWMS. Photos stay on your phone. We can’t see them.
Gate Ready suggests a builder licence or registration for your state. Add the dates and it reminds you before they run out. Add your White Card, working at heights training and insurance too.
Your first SWMS is free. Then you get a one-month free trial. After that it's $24.99 a month, GST included.
The App Store or Google Play bills you. You can cancel any time in your store account. Try the sample jobs first. They don't use your free SWMS.
It shows which items on the high risk construction work list your job may trigger, such as falls, temporary props, demolition and asbestos, and suggests controls for each one. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. Add symbols such as exclusion zone, scaffold, edge protection and overhead power lines, then pin each photo to a site plan. Photos stay on your phone.
Common tasks cover a new single-storey house, a two-storey extension and an internal renovation. Pick Carpentry, Concreting and other trades too if your crew does that work.
Yes, for most of the job. Gate Ready is built for patchy reception. You can draft, sign on and save your PDF without a signal. It checks your subscription when it’s online. If it can’t check for 14 days, you can keep working on SWMS you’ve already started, but you can’t start a new one until it reconnects. Sending a copy needs a connection.
They stay on your phone. You export a PDF, and that exported copy is your record.
Yes. It covers all eight Australian states and territories. Always check the result against your job, your site and your regulator.
Your first SWMS is free. Then you get a one-month free trial. After that it’s $24.99 a month, GST included. The App Store or Google Play bills you, and you can cancel any time in your store account. Try the sample jobs first. They don’t use your free SWMS.
More answers on the FAQ page. Not a builder? Gate Ready covers more than 70 trades. See the full list.
Samples for other trades
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Your first SWMS is free.
