Gate Ready for roofers
Start from a job you do every week, check the fall and skylight controls, add photos of the roof and the power line 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 8
Page 1 is above. Here are the site plan and a marked-up roof photo. The sample is for replacing old roof sheeting on a 1980s house in Queensland. It is for a fictional business and not for use on site. The photos are illustrations.
Pick Roofing 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.
Remove and replace metal roof sheeting on a pitched roof, working at height on the roof.
Inspect and repair a leaking roof, replacing damaged tiles or sheets and resealing flashings.
Pressure clean, repoint ridge capping and apply a roof coating to a tiled roof.
Pick every trade you do when you set up. Common tasks, hazards and ticket suggestions for each one show up together. There is also a task for removing an asbestos cement roof and re-roofing, where a licensed removalist takes the old sheeting off.
When the job is at height, Gate Ready adds the hazards (a fall from an edge or ladder, a fall through brittle roofing or a skylight, falling objects, and storms and lightning) and controls like these. Each one shows its type.
Scaffold, an elevating work platform, travel restraint and a catch platform 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. For jobs on a roof, a severe weather group is suggested too. Bird and bat droppings steps appear for roof cleaning and gutter work. Gate Ready suggests, you review.
Roofs and eaves on older houses can contain asbestos cement. 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 roof before you start. Mark up the power line, scaffold, skylights and 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 working at heights training for roofing. Add the dates and it reminds you before they run out. Add your trade licence, 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, covering skylights and treating every roof as fragile. You tick the ones that fit the job and add your own.
Yes. It suggests a severe weather group for roof and ladder work: check the forecast, write down your stop-work points, know where to shelter and who decides when to restart. You set the wind speeds and lightning distances for the job.
Yes. Add symbols such as fragile roof or skylight, overhead power lines, scaffold and exclusion zones, then pin each photo to a site plan. Photos stay on your phone.
Common tasks cover replacing roof sheeting, repairing a leaking roof, restoring a tiled roof and removing an asbestos cement roof. Pick Roof plumbing too for gutters and downpipes.
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 roofer? 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.
