Posted By CFT
Ali

I would be more concerned as to why on this one rather than how. Something is going wrong Ali and I personally would prefer to address that issue first.

Do you feel the current paper based assessment system is a really poor one? Or might it be the competence of the people in your organisation tasked with the creation of an approved list?

Assessing and utilising the services of contractors throughout our Group is not always the cut and dried process one expects, and it is equally important to get to know the contractor and for them to know me over time, so I do ensure a level of commitment appropriate to the works; this ensures 'if,' a company responds with the information I require positively but alarm bells go off, it does not take many minutes to find they don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Ali, with respect, I recommend you rethink the system you have in place as opposed to looking for a new paper based one at this moment in time.

Just my thoughts, nothing more.

CFT

Posted By Ali
...just some more background info. I work as safety advisor, but my role does not allow me to input into the vetting process, which (to me) looks more financially based than I would like. I don't even get to look at the information sent by the contractor. Hence the question. However, if there was a better system that the "vetter" could use, it could plug some of those loopholes. We are also looking at being CHAS accredited, which involves getting the contractor to vet their subbies similarly. Does this help ?