Managing Contractors | Online Training
Does your business work with contractors? While they might follow a slightly different set of rules, their health and safety’s just as important as that of company employees, so you need to protect them. Before hiring a contractor, you need to verify that they have the proper training and expertise to carry out the job that needs to be done. And before you set contractors to work, you must be sure you’re taking the right measures to avoid or mitigate any risks they might be exposed to. This managing contractors training will help you keep all your contractors safe under your supervision.
• Describe how health and safety law applies to contract work • Identify questions to ask in thorough interviews to select suitable contractors • Assess all the risks of a job • Explain how to manage contractors more effectively
This course describes how health and safety law applies to contract work, and guides you through the steps to take to ensure contractors are not exposed to unnecessary risks. This starts with identifying all the aspects of the work the contractor is expected to do. You’ll learn what kinds of questions you need to ask candidates in the interview process for selecting a suitable contractor, and the training also covers risk assessments and tips for managing contractors more effectively.
This managing contractors in the workplace course is designed for employers, who have a duty of care to take every reasonable precaution to ensure the health and safety of contractors working for them.
Everyone has the right to learn and learner need can vary demanding on environment or disabilities. This course comes with transcripts so people have text options for an media, subtitles for all videos and is screen reader friendly with alternative text.We take a number of steps to ensure visuals and navigation is easy for your people. For more information on the steps we take for accessibility check out how we make our courses.
