Capita Symonds' Health and Safety Training - Managing Contractors Safely
 
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Health and Safety Training

Managing Contractors Safely

One day course

Overview

Failure of Contactors often means failure of Client. This course teaches you how to engage competent contractors.

Who should attend?

  • Anyone hiring a contractor to undertake work on their premises, eg client bodies, project managers, facilities and production managers, maintenance personnel
  • Anyone with the job of supervising contractors or preparing lists of approved contractors
  • NB: This course has applications across all industries and is not specific to those engaged in construction work

Objectives

  • To understand corporate and personal responsibilities under current health and safety law
  • To better understand risk assessment and safe systems of work
  • To be able to assess competence of contractors and quantify ‘resources’ and ‘competence’
  • To know what to do with contractors’ method statements
  • To understand how to monitor performance

Course Content

Duties of those who manage contractors:

  • To be satisfied that contractors are competent
  • Effectively managing and supervising work
  • CDM prosecutions - how to keep out of jail!
  • Method statements - to approve or not?

How managers can discharge their duties and consequent benefits:

  • How to keep on the right side of the law
  • HSE Guidance on use of contractors
  • Responsibilities of an employer and its staff for health and safety
  • Dealing with unsafe working practices on site
  • Good safety is good business

Scheduled dates

Sorry, we currently don't have any scheduled dates for this course.


Special offers*

  • Save £50 if you book more than 28 days in advance.
  • Plus £75 off for every third delegate attending the same one day course on the same dates.

How to book

To book open courses:

Notes

  • Fee includes:
    • Complimentary copy of INDG 368 - Use of Contractors: a joint responsibility
    • Course literature
    • CPD Certificate
    • Lunch and refreshments
  • * Special offers apply to scheduled dates only. Please contact us for offers and fees for in house training courses.

In house training

To run this course in house, contact us or fill out our in house training enquiry form.

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