Managing Contractors

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Course Objectives:
It is a common misconception that when contractors work at your site, you have no management control over their activities. This is not the case. Health & safety law requires the client organisation to have some responsibility for contractor's activities. Should an accident ever occur at your premises involving a contractor, then questions will be asked of you, the contractor and the contractors' employer regarding how their activities were managed. This comprehensive one-day programme includes: -

  • How to provide a safe place of work for the contractor
  • How to ensure that your own employees are not put at risk from the actions of a contractor working on site
  • Ensure that your employees do not act in a manner which may endanger the safety of contractors
  • Providing the contractor with information on the hazards and risks in the area where the contractors conduct their work
  • Monitoring contractor's activities whilst on your site
  • Signing in procedures and basic induction including familiarisation with site rules


Contents:
This course covers:
  • Recommended Questions for Contractors (including a practical exercise)
  • Health & Safety Policy and Practice
  • Training and competence
  • Contractor supervision
  • RIDDOR Regulations
  • Permit to work systems
  • Construction and Design Management (CDM) Regulations


Who should attend:
Ideal for project managers, principle contractors, facilities managers, estate managers, health & safety professionals, resident engineers or equivalent, contract administrators and contract supervisors.

Course benefits:
Delegates will learn what the Management Regulations require regarding contractors:
  • Risk assessment: contractors should be considered within your risk assessments
  • Health and safety arrangements: setting up effective arrangements and procedures to ensure the safety of contractors
  • Information: contractors should be provided with information on risks to their health & safety that have been identified by your risk assessments
  • Co-operation and communication with contractors whilst they are working upon your site. Contractors need a site contact preferably in a managerial position with sufficient authority and competence


Additional information:
The importantance of selecting only competent contractors: -
  • enquiries should be made about previous health and safety performance of contractors
  • Obtaining references from previous employers
  • Requesting copies of contractor's safety policies, risk assessments, training records etc.
  • Addressing health and safety matters in contracts
  • Health & Safety specifications for controlling risks
  • Liaising with the contractor's employer before and during the work
  • Employment of sub contractors
Problems can arise when there is further sub-contracting unless there are good arrangements between all parties. You should specify rules about sub contracting e.g. what qualifications they should have, and also exercise some level of control over their activities. You may wish to specify that sub contractors are not to be employed.

Certificates:
All delegates who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate of attendance.

Trainers background:
The trainer for this course has extensive experience in design and delivery of health & safety training programmes. They are qualified by NEBOSH (National Examination Board for Occupational Safety & Health) and Associate member of IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety & Health) and is a member of the Chartered Management Institute and the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and the Association for Project Safety.

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