I am looking for some feedback from different industries on how they deal with contractors who infringe site rules or are deemed in breach of health and safety legislation or carry out a dangerous activity. Currently on the site where I work we have a lot of maintenance engineers and persons carrying out new installations. We run a yellow/red card system similar to those run in the construction industry, where you get a yellow card for a minor infringement and a red card for a serious one which also means you are banned from site. We are carrying out a review of the policy and I wanted to know what schemes other businesses run. We are thinking about applying a time limit on the ban on the conditions the individual(s) involved receives further instruction, training, coaching and mentoring and can demonstrate lessons have been learnt and are safe to work on site.

Hmm...does the yellow/red card equally apply to the PC's staff and representatives of the Client - I bet they don't! I can't believe there is not a better way of maintaining discipline and safe practices on a construction site.