Gate Ready for carpenters
Start from a job you do every week, check the fall, nail gun and truss 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 framing a two-storey house in Victoria, with a crane lift for the trusses. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Carpentry 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.
Stand and fix timber wall frames and floor joists on a two-storey house, working at the upper floor edge.
Hang internal doors and fit architraves and skirting.
Install a timber staircase in an existing stairwell, with an open void on one side.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. Common tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together.
When the job is at height, Gate Ready adds the hazards (a fall from an edge or opening, falling objects, and truss and frame work) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
Scaffold, an elevating work platform, travel restraint and rescue lines are in the list too, and start unticked. You choose the ones that fit your job. A risk of a fall of more than 2 m is on the model national list of high risk construction work, and some states set their own height rules, so check your regulator. Gate Ready suggests, you review.
Jobs on older houses can involve asbestos in eaves, wall sheeting and linings. 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 passage and the back yard before you start. Mark up the edge protection, the power pole, the crane lift area and the exclusion zone, 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 and working at heights training for carpentry. Add the dates and it reminds you before they run out. Add your White Card 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 suggests controls like edge protection at the upper floor, safe access and rescue planning. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. Add symbols such as crane or truck, crane swing radius, overhead power lines, edge protection and exclusion zones, then pin each photo to a site plan. Photos stay on your phone.
Yes. Framing jobs suggest nail gun controls such as sequential triggers, and truss and frame controls such as bracing before anyone climbs on them. You decide what applies to your job.
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 carpenter? 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.
