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Posted By Stewart Dean
I work for a LA and we are in the process of vetting all contractors for competency in health and safety. Can anyone tell me what applies to Community Service Workers? Do we check them the same as other contractors or are they different?
Any help or past experience dealing with this would be appreciated.
Regards
SD
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Posted By Ron Hunter
You should apply the same principles to any contractor in a 4-step process, i.e.
1. Initial assessment of compliance with systems and managmentof health & safety (policy, organisation, etc.;
2. contract/task specific method statements etc.;
3. monitor (and 4.review) their performance (in a health and safety context)- in the real world of course you monitor and review in terms of quality/targets, costs, etc. (best value?)
The Contractors Health & safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS), (for example) sets out a system for compliance, and as a LA you should be looking to apply these principles across the board. Check out the CHAS website ,and encourage your Organisation to adopt a "corporate approach" to this issue?
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