Contractor Safety Management - HS46

An effective relationship between clients and contractors at all stages of the procurement / supply chain is essential for competently managing health and safety in a hydrocarbon (or any) facility. This five-day course provides the practical processes for developing and managing a contractor safety management system covering all stages of the contracting cycle based around recognized management systems, such as API Recommended Practice 2220 "Improving Owner and Contractor Safety Performance" and OGP guidance "Managing in a Contracting Environment." The course includes advanced interviewing skills, which are taught and then used in a simulated but realistic extensive contractor selection case study exercise.

Project managers, procurement and supply chain managers, HSE managers, HSE auditors, engineers, and supervisors who require an understanding of how to manage contractors.

You will Learn:

Participants will learn how to:

• Implement a contracting supply chain strategy based on an understanding of the risks and benefits of outsourcing low risk, high risk and specialist activities
• Develop a contracting strategy based on a pre-qualification program
• Prepare a program to initiate the use of competent contractors based on bid documents covering HSE and other relevant standards
• Communicate effectively with contractors, including reporting requirements for incidents and accidents and emergency procedures
• Identify the barriers that could prevent successful implementation of a contractor safety program, and how to overcome them
• Develop a program of supply chain performance monitoring
• Perform an effective interview, including describing the benefits and disadvantages of various questioning techniques
• Provide feedback (the 3 As) likely to initiate continual improvements in contractor performance
• Use sector management systems such as OGP, API standard 2220, and HSG65 as methodologies for initiating and maintaining continual improvements in contractor performance