Contractors and subcontractors

Establishing overall and specific organizational roles and responsibilities of different functions and disciplines by defining individual roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, and interfaces in the project team with matrix personnel and organizations, and between contractors and subcontractors. 

Given that multiple contractor and subcontractor organizations could be involved in work activities, senior management should address any misunderstandings concerning specific operational responsibilities and accountabilities that could cause problems in the administration of site-specific programs. 

Successful project control includes understanding and anticipating organizational issues that may occur with contractors and subcontractors. Once the contractor relationship is formalized, it is then communicated to all affected personnel on the site. 

Contractors and subcontractors are typically required by contract to be responsible for their own workers and should provide a level of oversight to meet all specifications. The primary contractor who is responsible for the worksite typically establishes the minimum requirements, controls access to the worksite, and verifies that subcontractors fulfill their health and safety duties and responsibilities. Wlien these specifications are defined, all contractors and subcontractors should meet or exceed these requirements, as appropriate. This could be based on the nature of the assigned tasks and associated hazards [2]. 

The responsibilities of contractors and subcontractors have been the subject of much debate. Therefore, it has become more commonplace for clients, who may have in-house personnel and resources adequate to perform cleanups, to hire subcontractors. These subcontractors could include all of those mentioned in the previous example, along with an oversight contractor. All of these subcontractors could bill the client directly for services or could bill the oversight contractor. Typically,... 

To make sure that all contractors and subcontractors maintain a minimum level of safety performance, the client, or general or main contractor, should establish standards for compliance. During the project planning stage, affected prime contractors should have an opportunity to provide input and resolve differences. Cross-cut committees are encouraged to allow prime contractors to standardize or normalize such essential elements as procedures, permit systems, and training. 

The contractors SSAHPs at Sites B, F, and K had general confined space provisions but lacked site-specific confined space procedures. For example, SSAHPs for the Site K contractor and subcontractor had written confined space entry programs, but the programs did not establish site-specific rescue procedures or identify the confined space hazards present on the site. The job hazard analyses for both programs failed to address site maintenance tasks that could involve confined space entry and hot work hazards. The programs also failed to identify the specific person or position responsible for supervising confined space entry procedures and the location of permit-required confined spaces on site. Interviews with both contractors indicated confusion about rescue procedures. 

Incomplete communication between researchers, contractors, and subcontractors. 

Contractors and subcontractors must be made contractually aware of the owner s requirements concerning their participation during the startup period. 

The committee consulted with and received input from many stakeholders, both principals and agents, including personnel assigned to the office of the PMCD and its support contractors contractor and subcontractor personnel responsible for operating chemical demilitarization facilities former employees of chemical demilitarization facilities congressional, state, and local officials members of state citizen advisory committees members of citizen activist groups and local citizens. (See Appendixes C, D, and I.)... 

Delegation as a contract. The delegated subprocess serves as a contract between contractor and subcontractor. The contractor is obliged to provide the required inputs, based on which the subcontractor has to deliver the outputs fixed in the contract. 

Autonomy of contractor and subcontractor. The autonomy of both parties is retained as far as possible it is restricted only to the extent required by the contract. 

Runtime coupling. The AHEAD systems of contractor and subcontractor are coupled by exchanging events. Coupling is performed in both directions. This way, the contractor is informed about the progress achieved by the subcontractor. Vice versa, the subcontractor is informed about operations relevant for the delegation (e.g., creation of new versions of input documents). 

The complex new task Determine Mixing Quality in the delegated process is refined by the manager on the subcontractor side by a private subnet to break it down into smaller working units and assign separate resources to each of the tasks. This refining task net comprises the tasks Prepare Simulation, Generate Mesh, Perform 3D-Simulation and Evaluate as shown in Fig. 3.86. The subnet is not part of the contract between contractor and subcontractor and can therefore be hidden from the contractor by means of private tasks. 

AHEAD currently supports only a delegation-relationship for the cooperation between processes where both parties have different roles during the collaboration (namely contractor and subcontractor) implying different rights to define all cooperation aspects. However, other possible cooperation scenarios should also be possible. For example, the same rights and duties can be given to the partners of a peer-to-peer cooperation. 

Contractors and subcontractors fees. This is usually 3 to 5% of the BM cost. Contingency for strikes, tornados, floods, and unexpected delays in delivery. This is usually 10 to 15% of the BM cost and does not include engineering errors, engineering uncertainties in design, or uncertainties in quotations. 

ESA/Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Intej active Compliance Assistance Advisor - provides F eraJ contractors and subcontractors with conqdiance infoaiiatiaiioD the three equal employment opportunity laws administered by OFCCP. 

The relationship between the various contractors and subcontractors is shown in Figure 1. The architecture of the refurbished module Ml systems, based on the use of the SPINLINE 3 platform, as designed during the basic design phase of the project is shown in Figure 2. 

Many events involve contractors and subcontractors. The companies involved, and their reporting stmctures, should be identified. The investigators will need information to do with the contract companies and contract workers in areas such as ... 

Documents issued during Phase V include operating and maintenance procedures, the results of a formal acceptance test and warranties from the contractor and subcontractors. 

It is the intent of this mle to hold the operator accountable for the overall safety of the offshore facility, including ensuring that all contractors and subcontractors have safety policies and procedures in place that support the implementation of the operator s SEMS program and align with the principles of managing safety set forth in API RP 75. 

The oil and gas industry exist in a world of increased globalization. This means not only that the oil companies operate on an increasingly global scale themselves, but also that they tend to connect to contractors and subcontractors to take care of large portions of operations and services, and to facilitate a seamless 24/7/360 manner of efficient operation, at a competitive price. Globalization imphes that the comparative framework increases in width and depth, that actors get a broader set of impulses and are more easily affected by other actors agendas. Globalization also accentuates and intensifies a lot of (known)... 

New government contractors and subcontractors who are required to develop and implement system safety programs to meet government requirements but have limited system safety experience... 

Inform contractors and subcontractors about specific infection control requirements. Provide oversight and direction for contracted work to ensure safety. 

On many construction jobsites there are a number of contractors and subcontractors performing jobs. In the case of confined spaces, sometimes employers of different employers will be performing work within the same confined space. In some instances employees of a subcontractor will enter a confined space after another subcontractor s employees have completed work within the space. 

On multi-employer jobsites, an employer s actions can affect the health and safety of another employer s workers. That s why it s critical for the safety of all workers that contractors and subcontractors communicate with each other. 

For Construction How does the written program provide for control of safety and health conditions for other contractors and subcontractor employees ... 

This multiemployer worksite doctrine first arose in the construction industry, where the presence of numerous contractors and subcontractors on one site sometimes made it difficult to determine who was responsible for safety violations. In response to this problem, OSHA established a rule that basically imposed responsibility on any employer who had control of the site. The rule has been and continues to be challenged in courts across the country, and recent rulings tend to support individual employer-employee responsibility. 

---