Prequalification Of Your Contractors Ensures Compliancy And Reduces Risk

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When one of Australia's largest property developers implemented a contractor prequalification solution as part of their safety management process, they discovered that over 90% of contractors entering their sites were non-compliant. This was an unexpected, and unwelcome, result.

Unfortunately it's not an uncommon one. Determining whether or not your contracting partners are up to date with all their insurance and workcover registration, if they have a compliant HSE system in place, can be a difficult and time-consuming task. But non-compliancy creates unacceptable risk.

A non-compliant contractor is an increased safety risk

What measures are you currently taking to determine whether or not your contractors have the correct insurance cover to carry out the work they do on your worksite - or if it's up to date? If you're like most companies, very little, if anything.But if a contracted worker is injured on your worksite, who would be responsible and who would cover the costs? Without the right cover, things can get sticky.

What should a contractor prequalification system do?

When you're looking ...
... for a system to prequalify your contractors, there are a number of check boxes you be looking to tick.

Does the prequalification system:

Check company details?

Determine ABN?

Confirm correct and current insurance?

Check for Work cover registration?

Determine company HSE compliancy?

Ultimately, a good contractor prequalification system needs to act a gatekeeper to ensure that your company is top of its contractor obligations.

The best contractor prequalification systems?

As a concept, contractor prequalification systems are fairly new, but they're out there. The best solutions are online, therefore eliminating IT difficulties, and will tap straight into ASIC allowing your contractor's registered name to be returned when their ABN is entered.

A good contractor prequalification system will also be simple to use, but clever enough to track all contractor information that's entered into the system and provide alerts to safety managers when information becomes out-dated.Because not a lot of organisations have a formal contractor prequalification system in place, it can be difficult to get recommendations. The best place to start is with a simple Google search for Contractor Prequalification. Check out the paid links, they can be the best way to go when looking for business-related solutions. Good luck.

Markpakshie is a freelance writer who has produced this article for Employee induction, Employee inductions, Contractor Management, Contractor inductions, Safety induction, Induction training. Go to our website for more examples of Markpakshie's work.