Gate Ready for electricians
Start from a job you do every week, check the shock and arc flash controls, add photos of the board 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 7
Page 1 is above. Here are the site plan and a marked-up photo page. The sample is for replacing an old switchboard in a 1960s house in New South Wales. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Electrical 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. “Certify” means your own certificate of compliance for the electrical work. Gate Ready doesn’t certify anything.
Replace an old switchboard in a house built in the 1960s.
Rewire an existing house, running new wiring through the roof space and walls.
Install new power points and downlights in an existing house.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. Common tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together.
When you tell Gate Ready the job is on or near live (energised) parts, or you’re not sure, it adds the hazards (electric shock or electrocution, arc flash burns) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
Live work (with a risk assessment and a safety observer) and arc-rated clothing are in the list too. They’re ticked if you say you’ll work on live parts, and unticked if you’re not sure. You decide whether they apply. Gate Ready suggests, you review.
Board jobs include a step to check the old board for asbestos before you disturb it. Gate Ready also asks when the building was built. Asbestos was banned in Australia from 31 December 2003, so anything built or renovated before 2004 may contain it.
Before you start, take a photo of the switchboard, meter box and roof space. Then mark them up with safety symbols such as exclusion zones, and pin each photo on a site plan to show where it was taken. They print with your SWMS. Photos stay on your phone. We can’t see them.
Gate Ready suggests the licence and training for your trade. Add the dates and it reminds you before they run out. Low voltage rescue and CPR are usually refreshed every year.
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 isolating, locking out, tagging and testing dead, and live work only where permitted, with a risk assessment and a safety observer. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. Pick Electrical, EV charger installation, Solar and any other trades you do when you set up. Common tasks include a home EV charger, a car park EV install, solar panels and a home battery.
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.
More answers on the FAQ page. Not an electrician? 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.
