Posted By Tabs Are they onsite or offsite? Makes all the difference.

Posted By Tabs Ok, you are not 'outsourcing' in the normal sense - you are buying a service. Outsourcing is generally where people other than employees enter you r workplace and do jobs within your workplace under your instruction, using your facilities. You have no real obligations to these people beyond those contained within section 3 of the HSAWA74 ... so you have to make sure that the condition you send the vehicles in do not place their operators at risks unknown to them (given that they are repairing/modifying, it is already implied that the vehicle may not be safe). They have the same responsibility to you - so if they have welded some fabric and that weld gives way and injures one of your staff, the other company would be liable. The working conditions within the other workplace is not of your direct concern, unless your company has morals. It is just like the people you buy your tyres or exhausts from ...