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One of my client's has around ten employees based in a workshop (two rooms and mezzane floor) with the occasional contractor or visitor. I am undecided whether to introduce a visitors book on site as they are a small business and their working environment isn't large either. Grateful for any views.
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Why do you want a visitor’s book? Possible answers are: - Fire roll call- but unless the site is big ( but with few people on it) it is unlikely you will lose anybody
- Security- if anything goes missing you would have an idea who was on site at that time but again will they wander around unsupervised?
- You have a receptionist and they need something to do- don’t laugh I have heard of this as a justification for a signing in book
- There might be some technical reason linked to quality control that you need to sign everybody in form example if the place was involved in forensic work or drugs manufacture
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No much to add really but you might want to keep a track of the time spent on site by contractors so that you can check the bill (just sayin') so in which case your visitor's book could come in handy.
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Thanks for all your feedback - food for thought and greatly appreciated.
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I have used visitors books to good advantage in a number of instances. A few times for checking contractors hours against time they were charging for, a case where an employee was claiming he injured his back on the job when he wasn't even in that day and in a case where an insurance assessor inspected a ridiculously large number of mewps within a narrow time frame and said he was on site all day. (A bit big brotherish I admit)
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No much to add really but you might want to keep a track of the time spent on site by contractors so that you can check the bill (just sayin') so in which case your visitor's book could come in handy.
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And it presents an opportunity to inform contractors about the presence of asbestos in the building; emergency procedures; site rules; PTW requirements; first aid provision; fire exits; telephone locations etc.
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