Contractor Safety Management

CRC Press

A Winner of the Educational Award by the World Safety Organization \nContractor safety management is often seen as nothing more than a subset of general safety management in that no special consideration needs to be given to understanding the difficulties of the contract environment. This leaves contractors endlessly juggling competing and sometimes contradictory demands made by the principal in the name of safety and health. Instead of managing the work in accordance with the contract and the agreed health and safety management plan, contractors find themselves having to cope with moveable, ever-changing expectations about the way that health and safety is supposed to be managed. \nContractor Safety Management explores how the contracting principal relationship can influence safety outcomes and how a principal's role in \""overseeing\"" the safety performance of its contractors is different from managing safety in its own organization. It brings together perspectives from different di.