Health Safety and Environment · HSE-017
Contractor Safety Management
Contractors often carry out the highest-risk work and are involved in a disproportionate share of serious incidents. Clients remain responsible for ensuring contractors…
- Duration5 days
- Next date16 - 20 Nov 2026
- Cities5 cities
- Fee from£3,850
Course overview
Why Attend
Contractors often carry out the highest-risk work and are involved in a disproportionate share of serious incidents. Clients remain responsible for ensuring contractors work safely on their sites.
This LLMI course covers the contractor safety life cycle: risk-based pre-qualification, HSE requirements in contracts, selection, induction, planning, supervision, monitoring, performance evaluation and close-out. Participants build a contractor safety management process for their organisation.
Practical tools and case studies help organisations integrate contractors into their safety culture.
Course Objectives
Understand client and contractor HSE responsibilities
Pre-qualify and select contractors based on HSE capability
Define HSE requirements in contracts
Induct, plan and supervise contractor work
Monitor and evaluate contractor HSE performance
Build a contractor safety management system
Target Audience
HSE professionals
Contract and procurement managers
Contract holders and supervisors
Project managers
Contractor managers
Facilities managers
Course Methodology
Process presentations
Case studies
Pre-qualification exercises
Monitoring workshops
Group discussions
Course outline
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1Day 1: Contractor Safety Fundamentals
- Contractor risk
- Legal responsibilities
- Client and contractor roles
- Contractor life cycle
- Common failures
- Case study: Contractor fatality
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2Day 2: Pre-qualification and Selection
- Risk categorisation
- Pre-qualification criteria
- Evaluating HSE capability
- Selection
- Contract requirements
- Workshop: Pre-qualification
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3Day 3: Planning and Induction
- Pre-mobilisation meetings
- HSE plans
- Induction
- Permits and interfaces
- Subcontractors
- Exercise: Contractor HSE plan review
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4Day 4: Monitoring and Supervision
- Supervision
- Inspections and audits
- Performance indicators
- Interventions
- Communication
- Exercise: Monitoring plan
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5Day 5: Evaluation and Improvement
- Performance evaluation
- Close-out reviews
- Recognition and sanctions
- Partnering
- System improvement
- Capstone: Contractor safety process
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