Enhance Your Contractor Management with Our Self-Assessment Tool

Are you a small or medium-sized general contractor operating in high-risk industries such as construction, energy, or industrial maintenance?

Do you want to ensure your contractor management systems are robust and effective?

Look no further than our proprietary Contractor Management Systems Self-Assessment tool.

With over two decades of experience in the contractor management business, we understand the complexities and challenges faced by organizations like yours.

Our self-assessment tool is designed to help you evaluate your current contractor management programs and systems.

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Understanding the Assessment

The assessment comprises 30 questions covering seven critical categories of contractor management:

1. Internal Responsibility System
2. Stakeholder Knowledge
3. Prequalification, Assessment, and Approval
4. Kickoff and
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Four Key Success Factors

As a global trend, more organizations in nearly all sectors of the economy are outsourcing more work. Currently, contractors fill one in every five jobs in the United States. Contractors are projected to make up half the workforce within the next decade. This trend is common across industrialized and emerging countries around the world.

No matter the industry, a key factor is workplace health and safety. The following is an introduction to the main elements of contractor management with an occupational health and safety focus.

Contractor management is a business process implemented by purchasing organizations to maximize efficiency and reduce sources of loss with their contracted services. This article will focus on common systems and activities in high-risk workplaces.

High-risk workplaces are physical locations and work activities that expose workers to significant or unusual hazards. Examples include:

• operating machinery,
• work on or near high-pressur
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‍High-risk industries require a unique and proactive approach to managing safe behaviors and promoting a positive safety culture.

With the potential for severe consequences, organizations must take a proactive stance to ensure the safety and well-being of their workers. Organizations can create a safe and secure environment for their employees by implementing the following strategies.

Anticipating and Planning for At-Risk Work Conditions

 Proactive employers identify the at-risk behaviors and the conditions their workforce face so that mitigation strategies are developed. While every organization and industry will have different at-risk behaviors, a few are more common across industries. These include:

• Substance abuse. Substance abuse is an issue that many organizations must tackle, particularly those in industries with a higher risk of injuries, such as construction and manufacturing. Employers must ensure their employees are free from substances that could impair their judgment
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Do You Have a Quarterback for Your Contractor Management Process?

Contractors play a pivotal role in the success of owners and prime contractors in high-risk industries. And an effective management process is essential to ensure that contractors are well-coordinated. This article explores the role of the Contractor Management Process Owner (CMPO) and how to identify and support one. Read on!

What is a Contractor Management Process Owner?

First, let's define 'process.' A process is a structured and repeatable series of steps that accomplish a defined business objective — for example, contractor management has seven steps spread across three phases.

Therefore, a process owner is accountable for designing a system, using the right combination of people, technical knowledge, and organizational support to effectively run the process.

A Contractor Management Process Owner (CMPO) is a person who is responsible for the oversight, development, and implementation of a contractor management ...

This is a condensed version of our recent webinar on Kick-Off Meeting Best Practices. In this video, we discuss how organizations can benefit from kick-off meetings. Content includes:

• Activity description
• Intent and goals
• Stakeholders and work teams
• Sustainability for small organizations
• When to hold 
• Who leads the meeting
• Best practices

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High-hazard work sites require emergency action plans consistent with the risks currently present, and likely to be created, at the worksite. The plan contains procedures and specifies resources for scenarios that may arise on the site.

These are emergency situations that can occur on high-risk worksites:

• Major injuries to workers, visitors or the public
• Spills or release of chemicals
• Fire and explosion
• Structural failure
• Incidents involving vehicles and moving equipment
• Crane and lifting equipment failure
• Trench and excavation collapse
• Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters such as tornados, floods, or extremes of hot or cold temperatures
• Bomb threats and active shooter events

The Emergency Action Plans Focused Observation assesses the project-level planning requirements, resources, and quality of site communications. These elements are necessary to establish an effective site emergency plan.

Contractor Assessment using Leading Indicators

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Monitoring of work in progress occurs in a contract's active phase, where actions are taken to verify that contractors have implemented the worksite's safety standards.

While many monitoring activities can be used on complex, multi-employer worksites, Focused Observations can be uniquely valuable. Focused Observation is a contractor management best practice and a leading indicator of safety management. By concentrating effort on high-risk and critical safety program activities, focused observations give prime and general contractors actionable data. Once in hand, the data will guide adjustments in compliance management, training, and coaching up the project safety culture. The three areas of a worksite's operations where Focused Observation brings the most value are:

• tasks with high pre-identified risk, things like confined space entry and work at heights,
• tasks with prev
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The Issue:

Sustainability is vital to the long-term success of your contractor management process, especially the prequalification step.

Creating a business system involves writing down principles and practices that deliver value to an organization and its customers. Business systems are implemented for various reasons contributing to an organization's success. And it's a fundamental success factor to implement what can be sustained over the long haul. Here are three key reasons to implement a contractor prequalification business system:

• Consistency of outcomes: There is long-term value in systems that produce reliable results. For example, your business processes work better when each department knows what they are responsible for and what the quality requirements are.
• Meeting client requirements: When a defined approach is used, the organization will tend to assess, measure, and anticipate the outcomes of what their clients want and don't want.
• Reducing costs and improving
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Welcome to Contractor Prequalification Best Practices.

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As a global trend, more organizations are outsourcing work. This means contractor management is increasing in importance, and prequalification is a vital part of the process.

By prequalification, we mean the preliminary stage of the contractor management cycle that determines if a service provider has the resources and competence to complete the job successfully. Ahead we'll examine some best practices related to this critical business activity.

You can employ many best practices to mitigate the risks and improve operations when working with contractors. Remember, though, that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. The following methods are tried and true, but consideration of how any one of them may fit your operations is essential to assess.

Put a Contractor Management Standard In Place

Establishing a written company Standard that documents your contractor management proces...