Head Contractors
The general or head contractor on site should do the following:
- Develop and carry out a site-specific health and safety plan.
- Make sure any contractor engaged to carry out oil and gas work is competent and has made suitable provisions for health and safety.
Head contractors coordinate subcontractor operations.
- Obtain and check site-specific safety plans from subcontractors.
- Make sure the coordination and cooperation of subcontractors regarding:
- information and on-site activity (such as site meetings, site procedures)
- appropriate communication arrangements between contractors on site for health and safety
- arrangements for discussing health and safety matters with people on site (such as setting regular toolbox/tailgate meeting times)
- incident and accident reporting
- Make sure training for health and safety is completed.
- Make arrangements to monitor health and safety performance (such as reports, audits and inspections).
- Make arrangements to pass on information from the client or designer/adviser to other contractors and employees (such as activity reports).
- Make arrangements to control visitor access, including such things as delivery of materials.
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2-10. Which of the following should be a responsibility of the head or general contractor?
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