Course Description
This highly-interactive training seminar will provide you with all the necessary skills and talents to successfully appoint a contractor and manage them with confidence to ensure their health and safety performance will be of the highest quality.
Your organization is never more at risk than when you outsource work without validation and it is therefore essential you have all the necessary checks and balances in place to ensure this process is well managed.
Contractors must be informed, assessed and monitored in a variety of ways to ensure their performance does not have a costly negative impact on your business. It is vital the actual performance of a contractor matches their stated intentions otherwise the statements and documents provided within any completed tender are meaningless leaving your organization and its reputation at risk.
This seminar will develop your ability to critically assess your contractors at all stages of a project to ensure you receive maximum performance with minimum risk.
What Do Participants Learn?
At the end of this seminar, you will learn to:
- How to prepare projects and select contractors
- How to define client/contractor agreements and documentation
- How to produce a client/contractor HSE Project Plan
- How to supervise contractors’ operations on a day-to-day basis
- How to Monitor and review a contractor’s performance and implement improvements
Who Should Attend?
- All line managers, supervisors, and team leaders
- Project managers
- Procurement and supply chain managers
- Engineers and maintenance personnel
- HSE managers and auditors
- Employee representatives
- All personnel involved in selecting or vetting contractors
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One
Project Planning & Selecting Contractors
- Why use contractors?
- Tender invitation and contractor evaluation process
- Hazard identification and risk assessment of Project and/or Work Tasks
- Establishing key client/contractor contractual elements
- Client Pre-Project Start HSE Meeting
Section Two
Client/Contractor Interface – HSE Project Plan
- Defining, Agreeing and Documenting Client/Contractor Responsibilities
- Establishing Client/Contractor HSE Project Plan
- Establishing Scope of Client/Contractor Shared Activities
- Producing an HSE Client/Contractor Interface Matrix
- Produce Active Performance Monitoring and Audit Checklists
Section Three
Managing Contractor Safety on Site
- Contractor Site Awareness, Training and Competence arrangements
- Contractor’s Incident Reporting and Investigation procedures
- Client/Contractor Emergency Preparedness Arrangements
- Carrying out HSE Site Inspections of Contractor activities – random and planned
- Joint Client/Contractor HSE and Project meetings
Section Four
Monitoring Contractor Performance
- Assessing Level of Supervision Needed to Oversee Contractor
- Appraisal of Project and/or Work Tasks – Are They Being Carried Out as Planned?
- Conducting Audit of Contractor’s Compliance – As Set Out In HSE Project Plan?
- Measuring and Recording of Contractor’s Overall Safety Performance
- Checking If There are any Changes In Personnel?
Section Five
Contractor Review and Lessons Learned for Improvements
- Review Project Performance and/or Work Tasks Carried out by Contractor
- How was Effective the Project and/or Work Task Planning?
- How Well Did the Contractor Perform?
- How Did the Job Go Generally?
- Record The Lessons Learned and Develop Appropriate Improvements
- Key Point Summary of Course Topics