Hiring Competent Contractors: Procedures for Ensuring Health and Safety

Procedure for employment of team of contractors To provide the necessary requirements and specifications to the contractors before they tender so as they can be in a position to gauge themselves as per the ability to carry out the job Assess the contractors due diligence to health and safety guidelines by privately enquiring whether the contractor is suitably qualified to perform the work. Finding out whether the contractor has an appropriate health and safety management system By finding out whether the contractor is fully inducted into the health and safety management systems Do a research on the risk that maybe posed by the contractors to the job that I intend them to do To come up with strategies and ways of risks management and control so as to be prepared of any eventualities before the actual works begin To be prepared and equipped on my duty of care to the contractors and their workers Find out how the contractors intend to utilize the job safety analysis that they may have developed Ensure that the most competent contractors are selected by use of the set selection criteria Do an assessment for competency by incorporating; The evidence that the contractors may have in the same type of work that I would intend to give Consider references from previous clients and employers which all have to be traceable Accident health statistics Risks assessments and methods statements Documentation Signing of contract