Subcontractor Responsibilities
All subcontractors should make sure the following is completed during the project:
- Develop a site-specific written safety and health plan for your particular work activity.
- Identify the hazards of the work you will be doing on the worksite and determine the risks they pose to your employees and other subcontractors, and how these risks will be controlled.
- Maintain written documentation of the training and competence of all employees involved in the project.
- Keep the general contractor informed of all hazardous conditions, non-injury incidents and injury accidents that occur on the worksite.
Correcting Hazards Created by Subcontractors
- Establish and communicate the requirement for and methods that subcontractors can use to promptly correct hazards involving their work activities.
- Make sure subcontractors understand the hazards on the specific worksite, and the hazard other subcontractors may create during the workday. One of the most common reasons for injuries by one subcontractor is the lack of awareness of hazards created by other subcontractors.
- Work with subcontractor to use methods to ensure that hazards are identified, analyzed, corrected, and tracked in subcontractor's work areas.
- Make sure subcontractors have a person assigned responsibility for managing their safety and health program on site.
- Ensure subcontractors effectively implement systems to identify and correct hazards in their work areas and include responsibility for hazard correction in writing.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
9-5. One of the most common reasons for injuries on a worksite is _____.
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