Gate Ready for plumbers
Start from a job you do every week, check the trench and underground service 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 laying a new sewer connection with a 1.8 m trench at a house in Victoria. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Plumbing 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.
Replace an electric hot water system at the side of a house.
Dig a trench and lay a new sewer connection to the main.
Find and repair a leaking pipe and clear a blocked drain with a drain machine.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. Common tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together. Drainage adds tasks like storm water drains and manholes, and gas fitting adds tasks like installing an appliance.
When the job includes a trench, Gate Ready adds the hazards (trench wall collapse, falling into the excavation, striking underground services, and plant or spoil near the edge) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
A trench or shaft deeper than 1.5 m is on the model national list of high risk construction work, and some states set their own rules, so check your regulator. Sewage and infection risks, noise, sun and heat, and manual handling are suggested for sewer work. Pipe lagging and old pipes can contain asbestos, so the asbestos check comes first. Gate Ready suggests, you review.
Pipe lagging, asbestos cement pipes, flues and covers in older houses can contain asbestos. Gate Ready adds a step to check before you cut or drill, and 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 photos of the front, the side passage and the back yard. Then mark up the meters, the relief gully, the trench route, the spoil pile and the exclusion zone, 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. 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 locating underground services, shoring or battering deeper trenches and keeping spoil back from the edge. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. Add symbols such as water shut-off valve, gas isolation valve, underground services, excavation edge and exclusion zone, then pin each photo to a site plan. Photos stay on your phone.
Common tasks cover replacing an electric hot water system, laying a sewer connection and fixing a leak or blocked drain. Pick Gas fitting and Drainage too for gas appliances, storm water drains and manholes.
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 plumber? 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.
