What is INDG368?
Using Contractors, INDG368 It explains how to identify the job, select a suitable contractor, assess the risks of the work, provide information, instruction and training, consult with the workforce, manage and supervise the work, what to do to cooperate with the contractor and where responsibility lies.
What is a contractor HSE?
A contractor is anyone you ask to do work for you who is not an employee. The guidance tells you what you must do to comply with health and safety law when you use contractors.
Do contractors need risk assessments?
The contractor must assess the risks for the contracted work and then both of you must get together to consider any risks from each other’s work that could affect the health and safety of the workforce or anyone else. provide information, instruction and training to your employees.
What are the recommended steps in the HSE guidance for managing contractors?
Have the right procedures in place
- Ensure safe systems that are documented are carried out in practice.
- Make sure everyone is competent to carry out the tasks and that contractors receive induction.
- Make sure isolation procedures for machinery and plant are clear.
When would a permit to work be needed?
Permits to work are required whenever there is a significant risk to safety and health during an operation, and where precise preparation of the site or plant and clear communications of procedures is needed to control the risk.
How do I choose a competent contractor?
The process of selection of right contractor should include evaluation of safety performance of the contractor, worker’s compensation, their recorded injury rates, periodic safety programs being conducted and the competency level of contractor’s personnel.
Who is responsible for CDM?
The CDM Regulations place responsibility for managing the health and safety of a construction project on three main duty holders. The client has overall responsibility for the successful management of the project and is supported by the principal designer and principal contractor in different phases of the project.
How do I find out if a contractor is competent?
Ask about their knowledge of applicable legislation, best practice and industry standards. Check their references out. Ask previous customers about the contractor’s standard of work, and if they managed health and safety well when on site. Always make sure that you see proof of the risk assessment relating to the job.
Do contractors have a duty of care?
Contractors and consultants will generally owe a duty of care in tort to their clients and third parties to take reasonable care to avoid causing personal injury or damage to property (other than to the works themselves).
Who is responsible for Rams?
When a contractor is working on your site, as Principal Contractor, you are responsible for ensuring that they’ve developed a safe system of work; in the form of Method Statements with associated Risk Assessments (RAMS).
How do you monitor contractor performance?
These are six of the most effective tools to monitor contractor performance:
- Contractor Progress Reports.
- Contractor Quality Assurance Plan (QAP)
- Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Performance Assessment.
- Product or Service Inspection & Acceptance.