Contractor Safety Management
Selection, orientation, oversight and the interface where accountability gets lost
Contractors carry out much of the highest risk work on operating sites, and the interface between host and contractor is where responsibility most often falls into a gap. This course covers prequalification, contract requirements, orientation, supervision and performance evaluation.
This course sits alongside our Contractor Safety Management consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Selection
- Prequalification criteria that predict performance
- Reading a contractor's safety statistics critically
- Capability assessment for the specific scope
- Bridging documents between host and contractor systems
Contract and mobilisation
- Safety requirements written into the contract rather than appended
- Orientation covering site specific hazards, not generic content
- Verifying competence and certification of individuals
- Subcontractor control and the tiers below the primary
Execution
- Supervision expectations and who is actually watching the work
- Permit interface and simultaneous operations
- Stop work authority and whether contractors believe they have it
- Incident and near miss reporting across the interface
Evaluation
- Performance monitoring during the contract
- Post contract evaluation feeding back into prequalification
- Auditing contractor safety management
- Long term contractors and the drift toward assumed competence
What you receive
- A prequalification questionnaire and scoring guide
- Contract safety requirement clauses
- A site orientation content specification
- A contractor performance evaluation template
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Selection reflects capability for the actual scope
- Requirements sit in the contract where they are enforceable
- Contractors know the site hazards rather than generic ones
- Performance data informs whether they are engaged again
Standards and references
We teach Contractor Safety Management against OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119 paragraph h contractors and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Contractor Safety Management for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
Ask about dates and cost