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Posted By lwbm
If anyone could provide me with any opinions/comments on the query below I would be most grateful.
A Company instructs various self employed contractors to attend other sites, not belonging to The Company, to carry out certain work activities.
Other than checking out the insurance of both parties and ensuring risk assessments and method statements are communicated between both parties what responsibilities should The Company consider? They are worried who would be liable in the event of one of the contractors they had instructed turning up to another site and injuring themselves or another employee of that site.
Basically what duties do they have to make sure they are sending them to a safe site bearing in mind they are not their employees...
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Posted By JayJay
Hi !
I'm assuming from what your saying that your company are a job agency ? Companys who take on personell who are'nt in their employment have a duty under section 3 of the Health & Safety at Work act 1974. Do you have a system where these self employed fill out a questionaire indicating that they have the appropriate PPE and also any relevant training for the work i.e. abrasive wheels, manual handling, plant etc. ? And they can back this up with evidence ? also once they turn up for the work do the site also check that everything of the above is in order ? And to act upon it on your behalf if they don't ? That is the problem you might face as i've had problems before of this nature where the persons turn up and theres no checks carried out.
Hope this helps JJ
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