23 Jan, 2025
Are your contractors as safe as your employees?
The growing number of contractors working in hazardous environments worldwide means an increasing risk for employers.

Use of contractors is on the rise. At the same time, in many industries, contract workers have higher accident rates than employees and are often performing the most high-risk tasks.
This is why being confident that contractors share your safety mindset and live your safety culture is essential if operating safely really is one of your priorities.
It is not enough to just check if a contractor is ISO certified, or to go with the cheapest or best-known contractor option and then put workers through an off-the-shelf safety induction.
EMBED SAFETY INTO EVERY STEP OF THE CONTRACTOR LIFE CYCLE
Contractors are often the hardest-to-reach audiences in complex global organisations. So, it’s essential that we don’t wait until contractor personnel are at the site gates before setting safety mindset and expectations.
The only way to be confident that your contractors are as safe as your employees is to embed a safety mindset into every step of the contractor life cycle. From Pre-qualification and contract specification, to onboarding, monitoring, coaching and evaluating work.
The foundations for keeping contractors safe have to be laid down from the very start to the very end of the contractor journey; a journey where colleagues from across the value chain are asking the right questions to make sure safety is equal to cost and capability in contractor planning and decision-making.
We are working with global clients to bring together multi-disciplinary teams from across the value chain to understand how they can set the foundations for contractor safety way before contractors set a foot onsite. These conversations are bringing real clarity to all contractor safety touch points and enabling teams to collaborate with a common goal in mind – making sure our contractors are as safe as our employees.
Get in touch to find out how we can help to enhance your contractor safety journey.