Here’s a common thing that contractors deal with every day. You’ve completed a prequalification questionnaire for a potential new client. Typically, you are answering a WORD form, maybe a formatted pdf, or more and more frequently, an online questionnaire ranging from 2 to 50 screens and hundreds of individual data fields. Of all this content, do you know what clients actually look at? If you suspect that they don’t look at all the data, you’d be right. Particularly with online platforms, lots of information is being requested, but little of it is consistently looked at.  

User analytics over nearly two decades show that three focus areas get more client attention than all the other categories combined. Roughly, 60% of client page views are in these three areas:

• Incidents, workplace injuries
• Workers Compensation performance, and
• Regulatory compliance

Let’s unpack each of these.

First, what’s meant by incident experience. Here we’re talking specifically about incident frequenc...

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
...

  https://www.cqntraining.com/emergency-action-plans-checklist

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.

The front-line supervisor has as much influence on worker behavior as any manager or executive. While not as simple as observing worker behaviors, the inputs of front-line leaders to health and safety are measurable. It's been said that what gets measured gets managed and this checklist may be helpful to your organization.

Download the accompanying PDF here >>

Assessing the quality of efforts and providing coaching are practices that increase compliance, improve culture and build resiliency in an organization.

Our Supervisor HSE Leadership checklist contains eleven measurable activities that are typically the responsibility of a front-line leader. Each checklist item is tied to a legislative requirement or a common industry practice. These items help establish a measurable base for supervisor leadership in the critical areas of risk assessment, and health and safety communications.

Our Contractor Management Basics checklist package has 10 checklists with more than 130 complia...

Welcome to Contractor Prequalification Best Practices.

Download the accompanying PDF here >>

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...

Mobilization is the series of actions required to bring a contractors’ people, equipment, and materials to the worksite. And doing it well is a high-value contractor management activity. Well-managed mobilization is critical for both contractors and clients as it generally determines how quickly and how well the contractor will meet project goals. Committing these critical steps to a measurable standard is also a project management best practice.

Download the accompanying PDF here >>

The degree that mobilization is well-planned and communicated is the difference between a contractor struggles to meet requirements versus a contractor that knows on day one how to execute and to what standards. Our Contractor HSE Mobilization checklist can be used to set requirements and provide a compliance framework for proactive management of contractor mobilization. It includes 15 critical activities that ensure clarity of communication and execution of worksite HSE requirements. Key content i...