Ensuring Contractor Safety: Your Responsibilities as a PCBU

Abstract

NAME: STUDENT [Author] UNIT TITLE: NUMBER: What are your responsibilities towards the contractors? Ensure that there is safe workplace for everyone. Know how to manage and control risks that may be involved the contractual work. Ensuring that the contractor is strictly following the prepared safe work methods statement. Check the credibility of the contractor in terms of qualifications, licenses and also authorizations. What should be provided for them by law. Health and safety legislation that permits concurrent duties. Occupational health and safety management system for the sake of creating and maintaining a safe working place. What Safety provisions do you need to provide for them  A safe working environment Enacting the health and safety legislation. What are they allowed to participate in.  Preparation of a written WHS management plan for the workplace before start of the construction process. What documents do you need to provide for them, WHS management plan whereby they must be aware of its contents which, they should be in a position to access it all the time. What do you need to check to make sure that they are genuine contractors ( Qualifications, Certificates, licences, WHS records,Training Records, Personal Files, Medical Files &  results of Pre-employment medical, Drug & Alcohol Screen etc) Authenticity of the documents that they may provide by doing a background check on them. Find out about past jobs and if need be contact the references provided. Ask the contractor in an oral interview about the safety precautions Accessing the machineries that they intend to use. Require evidence regarding history of medical treatments, operational safety and workers compensations. Incorporate the unit of competency which may involve knowledge application of workplace so as to identify the services that are supplied by the contractors. Access the contracts and other relevant contract documentation that may hold different information and data. Identify the content that is relevant to contractor WHS arrangements Identify workplace policies, procedures, processes, systems, practices and activities that are considered relevant to the contractor WHS arrangements. What do you need to include in an induction, Emergency responses procedures Safe work practices Site entry Access and amenities Work management...