\u201cContractor management\u201d is a health and safety term used by building companies. It\u2019s referring to the process of checking if your contractors are competent and work safely.<\/span><\/p>\n Your obligations as the main contractor are pretty straightforward. First, you need to make sure contractors have the right skills and experience to do the job, and second, you need to make sure they are going to carry out the work safely. Once they are on board, you also need to monitor if the contractor is following good health and safety practices on-site.<\/span><\/p>\n Collecting evidence of this process is important so we recommend putting a system in place so nothing falls through the cracks.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Pre-qualification company checks once a year:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n Induction of workers:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n On-site induction of workers:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n On-site health and safety:<\/i> Stay on top of these checks with an automated system.<\/b><\/p>\n Get peace of mind your contractors are good to go, with an automated system to pre-qualify your contractors, check insurance, trade qualifications and more. As it\u2019s automated, you won\u2019t have to chase contractors for outstanding documents, and you\u2019ll even get a notification if someone scans-in who hasn\u2019t been approved.<\/span><\/p>\n Find out more about HazardCo\u2019s Pre-Qualification Tools here, or get in touch with the team<\/a> by giving us a call on 0800 555 339 or email <\/span>info@hazardco.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is Contractor Management? \u201cContractor management\u201d is a health and safety term used by building companies. It\u2019s referring to the process of checking if your contractors are competent and work safely. As a building company, what do I need to do? Your obligations as the main contractor are pretty straightforward. First, you need to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en-nz","tag-contractor-management","tag-hazardco-system"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAs a building company, what do I need to do?<\/b><\/h2>\n
What you should be asking your contractors for:<\/b><\/h2>\n
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\n<\/i><\/strong>As a yardstick, good health and safety on-site would be your contractor completing at least two Toolbox Meetings and Four Risk Assessments each month, and a Task Analysis anytime high risk work is carried out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHow to stay on top of all these checks:<\/b><\/h2>\n