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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