HEALTH & SAFETY
“YOUR AUDIT TRAIL BECOMES
A VITAL SOURCE OF EVIDENCE IN THE INVESTIGATION PROCESS.”
for them to provide you with all necessary documentation before gaining permission to visit your site and complete work. Otherwise, how can you run compliance checks safe in the knowledge that the individual is suitably qualified to be on your site carrying out the task? More importantly, are you prepared to take the risk?
GOING ONLINE:
THE BENEFITS In the event of a health and safety incident occurring, your audit trail becomes a vital source of evidence in the investigation process. It demonstrates you have done everything reasonable to reduce risks and protect individuals. What, Why, When, Where and How are all are key questions that you should hold the answers to prior to a contractor arriving on site. Making it mandatory for contractors to fill out information
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before they can be approved for a job via an online system, is the most effective way of managing this sometimes complex process.
Banyard Solution’s e-permits management system enables this. The request system is straightforward for contractors and allows them to demonstrate that they are able to complete the specified task, with valid training certification and insurance. They are the persons responsible for uploading the data – showing if they have been inducted on site before, with relevant date information. This must be done before you can agree for them to be on the site and approve the supporting permit to work. It also ensures they only turn up on the day you are expected to work, and unexpected arrivals will not be able to get on site.
A contractor arriving on site early could be dangerous. Necessary isolation of high voltage systems
planned for Friday may not have occurred on the Wednesday when the contractor has turned up unexpectedly. By having a system that only gives authority for them to come on site on particular days, you are protecting them, and your business.
Having contractor records also enables you to document where contractors have failed, or not performed the task you expected them to, meaning that you know not to work with them in the future. This ‘close out’ process is important - you are able to review whether the contractor turned up, was the work done in the right place, was it completed safely, did the individual take avoidable risks, were cables left lying around? If non-compliant issues occur you are able to keep a record of it and monitor for the future, ensuring your health and safety processes remain watertight.
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