Contractors & Procurement

Navigating Safety Compliance: Contractors and Procurement

In today’s safety-conscious landscape, ensuring workplace safety extends beyond internal employees—it encompasses everyone contributing to your business, including contractors. While contracts and documentation are essential, they alone cannot absolve joint liability in safety compliance. At Delivering Outcomes, our safety experts blend extensive experience and leading safety practices to offer an integrated approach that mitigates risks associated with contractors and procurement.

Understanding the Scope:

  1. Extending Safety to Contractors: Safety legislation categorises workers broadly, encompassing contractors. Our experts emphasise the significance of integrating safety practices that encompass not just employees but also contractors involved in your business operations.
  2. Mitigating Joint Liability: Merely documenting safety measures isn’t enough to absolve joint liability. Our approach delves deeper, providing guidance on understanding and mitigating joint liability issues associated with safety compliance.

Key Components of Our Approach:

  1. Practical Procurement Processes: We assist in developing practical procurement processes that align with and meet baseline safety requirements. Our goal is to streamline procurement while ensuring safety compliance at every stage.
  2. Contractor Support and Guidance: We offer support to contractors, guiding them to meet safety requirements effectively. This includes assisting individual contractor workers in demonstrating role competency and completing safety inductions equivalent to internal workers.
  3. Integration with WHS Systems: We provide insights on integrating contractor reporting on hazards and incidents seamlessly into your Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) systems. This integration ensures a comprehensive approach to safety management.
  4. Involvement in Incident Investigations: Understanding your role in contractor incident investigations is crucial. Our experts outline how you should be involved in these investigations, ensuring comprehensive compliance and learning from incidents.
  5. Responsibilities for Ongoing Inspections: We guide you on meeting responsibilities for ongoing safety compliance inspections involving contractors, ensuring that safety standards are continually upheld.

Embracing Safety Compliance in Procurement:

Our comprehensive approach ensures that safety is integrated seamlessly into your procurement processes, minimising risks and liabilities associated with contractor engagement.

In summary, safety compliance extends beyond internal operations to include contractors. With Delivering Outcomes, our integrated approach ensures that contractors are supported, safety standards are met, and joint liability concerns are addressed. Strengthening safety in procurement is pivotal for comprehensive workplace safety compliance.

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What our customers say

Yuet-Kang Chow Director at Olive Tree Properties

“Chris brings with him great enthusiasm, energy and professionalism along with extensive shared services and large scale business transformation experience to every job that he takes on. A great person to have on one’s team!”

Rebecca Girdwood Senior Executive – ESG

“Chris was fantastic to work with, bringing experience and expert knowledge to the project. He also demonstrated extreme patience when dealing with the group and was able to bring them along on the project. A great experience, would definitely recommend him again.”

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General Manager – Agri Manufacture

“If you’re looking for safety consultants who don’t just talk the talk but walk the walk, Delivering Outcomes is unique. These guys are experts who really care about making your workplace safer. We had many WHS issues – the DO team didn’t just throw a generic plan at us, they listened to our issues and tailored their approach to fit our business and our people. Now we have a WHS management system that is easy to use, and everyone knows the part they play to make sure everyone goes home safe.”

Ty Matson, CEO Shire of Leonora

“When I came on board as the CEO there was really no WHS structure and my teams’ knowledge was low. Since Delivering Outcomes has been engaged it’s been great. Chris has gained the trust of the team, and the level of engagement is exceptional! It’s only been 4 or 5 months and to get to where we are now has just been incredible. I Sleep a lot better at night.”
“Understanding how WHS integrated into every business function and process changed our thinking from safety as a particular function, to safety as a culture. With a shift to focusing on safety we saw an increase in worker retention, better productivity and less compensation claims.”
“After struggling to recruit our own WHS team. Delivering Outcomes raised our understanding of skills required, created a solid plan and supported us by coaching our internal candidates.”
“In-depth practical knowledge from the specialists, means we moved swiftly to increase our workplace safety.”
“The difference between a previous WHS Gap Analysis and the one from the team at Delivering outcomes was amazing. We now have a detailed project plan that our business team can understand and follow. This will deliver measurable business improvements and even a return on our investments in safety.”