Safe Work Practices (SWP)

A Safe Work Practice or SWP is a document written specifically for a particular safety-sensitive task, which details the guiding best practices and principles for ensuring safety and security during the execution of work. SWPs are readily accessible reference materials that can be easily pulled from the greater collection of documentation found within an organization’s occupational health & safety manual.

These focused documents define the scope of the task they apply to and provide educational information regarding potential and actual hazards, key mitigations / controls, regulations / guidelines (if in existence), equipment / materials usually implemented and any other supplemental information that empowers the reader to reduce their risk to “as low as reasonably practicable” (ALARP).