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What is Contractor Management?
What is Contractor Management?

What does good contractor management look like? What do you need to do? How does HazardCo Complete help make this process easy?

Updated over a week ago

Managing everyone's safety on site is non-negotiable.

Building a house is a team sport. There is the building company and their employees on site, contractors and subcontractors. Sometimes there is a Project Manager or a Developer involved too. This means that at any time, there will be multiple businesses on site that are responsible for the health and safety of workers. Everyone needs to consult, coordinate, and cooperate to ensure health and safety is managed well.

As the building company or main contractor, you’re responsible for the H&S of everyone on site, not just your direct employees. We know that getting contractors involved in H&S is a big challenge for building companies and is exposing you to additional risk.

What does good contractor management look like?

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 need to monitor throughout the project if the contractor is following good health and safety practices on-site.

We’ve created a number of new tools that will help you to manage your contractors before they begin working with you and while they are on site. We’ve also made it easier to monitor your contractor's H&S activity, even when you’re in the office. It’s one system for everyone. Protect everyone on site, and protect your business.

How does HazardCo Complete help make good contractor management simple?

Pre-site - Do your homework before you start working with contractors to reduce the risk to your business

  • Simple pre-qualification - Hit one button to start the pre-qualification process with a new contractor. From there, they will automatically be sent a questionnaire requesting all the information and documents you need, including public liability insurance, a policy and procedures document and evidence they follow good H&S practises on site.

  • Automated reminders to save you time - If your contractors don’t respond, they will receive email reminders until they complete the process. You will get a notification when the documentation is ready to check and approve. No more chasing contractors and no more long email chains.

On-site - Love the onsite app you already use? Now contractors can use it too.

  • One system for everyone - From employees to contractors, everyone on site will be able to use the HazardCo app to complete H&S reports such as site reviews, task analysis/SWMS, incident reports and more. Workers can collaborate on safety by creating and assigning tasks. you’ll know everyone has guided, easy-to-use tools at the ready-to-manage safe on-site. All reports will be shared with you. And they will get a copy for their own records too. Finally, kill paperwork on site.

  • Aus Only: Worker scanned on site without a White Card notification - If a worker scans onto a site without a White Card you’ll get a notification. So unless you hear otherwise, you can be sure everyone on-site is good to go.

Oversight - Get the big picture view of all H&S activity taking place

  • Monitor H&S activity with dashboards - You’ll be able to see all H&S activity at a project or company level. For the first time, you will have full visibility of all H&S activity taking place on-site, from employees to contractors.

  • Create a record of good health and safety practices over time - All reports created on site will be automatically sent to you and stored for safe keeping. Say goodbye to paperwork and filing.

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