Posted By Lee Ainsworth Does anybody have a from/checklist for the monitoring of contractors when working on site. I've looked on the usual web sites without any luck. This would be much appreciated as I'm finding the works becoming over-run with agency and contract workers. To add to this, the managers bringing them on are in denial with regards to their supervisory responsibilty towards them. Please help. Lee

Posted By Lee Ainsworth Jim Thanks for the feedback, I understand where you are coming from and appreciate the difficulties every one of us have in monitoring contractors. It is normally the Engineering or Projects Managers who would bring in contractors and sit down with the H&S department to discuss the work to be completed. We receive method statements and use only Passport to safety credited contractors. Using our pemit systems the "job owner" which is usually the engineering manager, is responsible for supervision and monitoring. The problem being, the job owner has the knowledge and expertise required to acknowledge if the contractors are working as they should be just by observing them without going into detail. Therefore nothing is being documented to prove that we are monitoring them. This is why I was thinking of trying to standardise some kind of form that could be used on a broad scale. I have been working on this for the last couple of days and now have a draft copy. I would be pleased to pass this on to you and anyone else interested for feedback and also for your use if required. Lee

Posted By Lee Ainsworth David I'm afraid our job owners fit it in if they have time. They still have the old adage "we've always done it that way". I'm hoping when they return from there 2 week visit to the EEF and completed their NEBOSH cert they may have a different outlook and realise that they do have a responsibilty towards maintaining H&S procedures (am I getting too cynical here?) I would be interested in looking at your inspection checklist if you could send it me. Regards Lee