Health & Safety Risk Management System

S06 - Control & Management of Contractors

This procedure clarifies the general health and safety responsibilities of clients and contractors to protect each other, their workforce and anyone else (eg visitors, people living nearby and other members of the public). These responsibilities, if not properly managed, can lead to events that could prove costly to all parties. All parties must co-operate to ensure that health and safety is properly managed — this will avoid things going wrong in the first place.

The procedure explains a process for pre-vetting, inducting, managing contractors on site and closing the contract.

There is also a detailed section on CDM 2007 that outlines the duties of the client, the designer, the CDM co-ordinator, the principal contractor and everyone else associated with a CDM site.