Introduction:

This Contractor Safety Management training seminar will provide you with all the necessary skills and talents to successfully appoint a contractor and manage them with confidence to ensure their health and safety performance will be of the highest quality.

Your organization is never more at risk than when you outsource work without validation and it is therefore essential you have all the necessary checks and balances in place to ensure this process is well managed.

Contractors must be informed, assessed and monitored in a variety of ways to ensure their performance does not have a costly negative impact on your business. It is vital the actual performance of a contractor matches their stated intentions otherwise the statements and documents provided within any completed tender are meaningless leaving your organization and its reputation at risk.

Objectives:

The objectives of this Contractor Safety Management training course is to ensure you gain the detailed information and competency for safely managing contractors. This training course has five key objectives for Contractor Safety Management:

Planning and selecting contractors – practical arrangements and methods

Establishing project interface agreements, documentation and HSE Project Plan

Managing contractors’ compliance, with the HSE Project Plan, on day-to-day basis

Monitoring – keeping track of contractor’s performance

Reviewing and learning – contractor management, deciding what needs to be improved.

Course Outline:

Day 1:

Project Planning & Selecting Contractors

Why use Contractors?

Tender Invitation and Contractor Evaluation Process

Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment of Project and/or Work Tasks

Establishing Key Client / Contractor Contractual Elements

Client Pre-Project Start HSE Meeting

Day 2:

Client / Contractor Interface - HSE Project Plan

Defining, Agreeing and Documenting Client / Contractor Responsibilities

Establishing Client / Contractor HSE Project Plan

Establishing Scope of Client / Contractor Shared Activities

Producing an HSE Client / Contractor Interface Matrix

Produce Active Performance Monitoring and Audit Checklists

Day 3:

Managing Contractor Safety on Site

Contractor Site Awareness, Training and Competence Arrangements

Contractor’s Incident Reporting and Investigation Procedures

Client / Contractor Emergency Preparedness Arrangements

Carrying-out HSE Site Inspections of Contractor Activities – Random and Planned

Joint Client / Contractor HSE and Project Meetings

Day 4:

Monitoring Contractor Performance

Assessing Level of Supervision Needed to Oversee Contractor

Appraisal of Project and/or Work Tasks - Are They Being Carried Out as Planned?

Conducting Audit of Contractor’s Compliance – As Set Out In HSE Project Plan?

Measuring and Recording of Contractor’s Overall Safety Performance

Checking If There are any Changes In Personnel?

Day 5:

Contractor Review and Lessons Learned for Improvements

Review Project Performance and/or Work Tasks Carried out by Contractor

How Effective was the Project and/or Work Task Planning?

How Well Did the Contractor Perform?

How Did the Job Go Generally?

Record The Lessons Learned and Develop Appropriate Improvements

Key Point Summary of Course Topics