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Contractors are integral to many businesses, allowing them to streamline their services and increase efficiency. However, the use of contractors precludes management from monitoring safety procedures used by the contractors. Contractors operate independently, and therefore may have rules and regulations that conflict with the hiring company. Furthermore, there are often few ways to monitor or oversee what the contractors are doing other than to review their official safety policies. The types of safety measures the contractors use might come into conflict with the core objectives of the organization. Therefore, organizations like ours should have specific guidelines for addressing health and safety concerns related to hiring contractors.
Our organization hires contractors for providing janitorial services, food services, and building maintenance. We have recently decided also to outsource the transportation of our goods. Therefore, a large part of our business depends on how the various contractors are ensuring their commitment to safety....
A key factor is the contractor relationship with the client organization. Identifying who supervises the contracted employees is the first step toward ensuring organizational health and safety goals are being met ("Contractor Safety a Growing Issue," n.d.). In some cases, management at the host organization provides "the majority of supervision," leaving the contractor supervisors in the ambiguous role of being figureheads ("Contractor Safety a Growing Issue," n.d.). Role ambiguity is dangerous when it comes to creating and enforcing regulations related to workplace safety. Therefore, it is critical to have an occupational safety component of the legal contract that exists between the service provider and the host organization.
Training is another issue that our company needs to address with regards to its contractors. It must be found out what types of training the contracted employees receive, in order to know whether they are able to comply with general safety rules. Inadequate training of employees means that the…
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"Contractor Safety a Growing Issue," (n.d.). Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health. Retrieved online: http://www.elcosh.org/document/1207/d000382/Contractor%2BSafety%2Ba%2BGrowing%2BIssue.html?show_text=1
Textbook, pages 200-201.
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If rejected, the subcontractor can at least feel that the choice was a fair one - that her or his organization was not perfectly suited to the job at hand. If selected; however, a potentially long-lasting relationship is created, one that is based on mutual trust, shared goals, and a feeling of true partnership. Methodology Numerous potential problems exist in the main contractor/subcontractor relationship. These problems range from subcontractors' lack of
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