Gate Ready for painters
Start from a job you do every week, check the lead paint, scaffold and ladder 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 painting the outside of a two-storey house from a scaffold in Western Australia. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Painting 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.
Prepare and paint the exterior of a two-storey house, including the eaves, from ladders and scaffold.
Paint the interior walls, ceilings and trims of a house.
Remove old lead-based paint from weatherboards on a 1950s house before repainting.
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 on an older house or at height, Gate Ready adds the hazards (lead paint, scaffold use and overhead service lines) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
Hazardous chemicals, dust, sun and heat, and slips are in the list too. 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.
Lead paint is common on houses built before 1970. Sanding, scraping or burning it off makes lead dust and fumes that harm nerves, kidneys and unborn babies. Gate Ready suggests wet scraping, containment and H-class vacuum clean-up. Check your regulator if machine sanding can’t be avoided.
Take photos of the front, the sides and the back before you start. Mark up the scaffold, the ladder positions, the exclusion zone, the service line to the house and the wash-water area, and pin each photo to a site plan. They print with your SWMS. Photos stay on your phone. We can’t see them.
Add your working at heights training, White Card, asbestos awareness and insurance details. Add the dates and Gate Ready reminds you before they run out.
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 testing before you sand, wet scraping or chemical strippers, containing the area, H-class vacuum clean-up and safe disposal. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. Scaffold gaps, walkway width, the handover certificate and fibreglass ladders near powerlines are in the list. You choose the ones that fit the job.
Yes. Add symbols such as scaffolds, ladders and exclusion zones, then pin each photo to your site plan. They print with your SWMS.
Yes. You can draft, sign on and save the PDF without a signal.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. The tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together.
More answers on the FAQ page. Not a painter? 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.
