Contractors evaluating performance

Refer to API RP 2220, Improving Owner and Contractor Safety Performance and API RP 2221, A Manager s Guide to Implementing a Contractor Safety and Health Program for information on the evaluation of all service contractors. 

The standard includes a questionnaire of about 150 questions that contractors fill out about their health, safety, and environmental (HSE) standards and performance as part of the bidding process. The contractor need only fill out the questionnaire one time it can then be used for multiple clients. (Not all questions apply to all contractors. For example, there are sections to do wifli aviation and marine. If a contractor does not work in those areas, he need not fill out the pertinent questions. There are also nation-specific questions. And contractors that perform low-risk activities will need to answer fewer questions.) Benefits of standardization include (i) elimination of redundant form filling by contractors, (ii) consistency in evaluating contractors, and (iii) freeing up more time for actually improving contractor safety. 

At the end of each project, facility and contractor representatives should thoroughly evaluate the contractor s HSE performance. These postwoik evaluations should be used for future prequalifying and selection of contractors. Evaluations should be dome at or near the completion of work or upon the expiration of contracts. Topics addressed in the postwork evaluation might include ... 

There are several assessment tools for evaluating the safety (and health) performance of construction contractors. Ng et al. (2005) developed Safety Performance Evaluation (SPE), which was a safety performance assessment model used for evaluating construction contractors. El-Mashaleh et al. (2010) applied data envelopment analysis for evaluating construction contractors safety performance. 

Improving Construction Safety Performance, Report A-3, The Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166. (Report includes criteria to evaluate contractor safety performance and criteria to enhance contractor safety performance). 

Human factors should be considered in the development of safe work practices. These safe work practices will normally apply to multiple locations and will normally be in written form (safety manual, safety standards, work rules, etc.). For some locations, site-specific work practices may be appropriate. The program should provide guidelines for selection and performance evaluation of contractors. API RP 76, Improving Owner and Contractor Safety Performance, may be helpful in developing guidelines for contractor selection. 

The standard requires the owner or operator, when selecting a contractor, to evaluate the contract owner or operator s safety performance and programs and periodically evaluate the contractor s performance during the course of the job. 

For OSHA PSM facilities, formal evaluation of the contractor s performance in meeting their obligations is required at least once during the work. This can be performed by the person who is assigned to manage the contractor or to provide safety oversight. The scope and frequency of the evaluation is discretionary. 

The contractor shall promote a professional working environment and develop and maintain administrative procedures which clearly define operating standards of conduct including control room access/decorum investigation of abnormal indications/events logkeeping shift turnover housekeeping fitness for duty and radiological protection practices. Contractor employee performance evaluations shall be made based on nuclear safety dedication, as well as performance standards related to the maintenance of a positive safety culture attitude. 

Contractors at Sites B, D, G, I, and J had incomplete sampling practices and as a result were not able to evaluate PPE levels based on monitoring data. Eor example, both contractors SSAHPs at Site I lacked provisions for monitoring site hazards such as metals, pesticides, herbicides, and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) that could not be evaluated with a PID. Since worker exposures to the range of hazards on site had not been characterized, PPE was not selected based on its performance relative to the nature and level of site hazards. 

The performance by the contractor/subcontractor should be noted on an evaluation form and a copy sent to regional purchasing for inclusion in the prequalification file. 

The project at Plant Sweatt was organized with Southern Company Services as EPRI s prime contractor responsible for project management, project direction and subcontractor performance. Subcontracted to Southern Company Services were Babcock Wilcox (B W) and KVB. B W provided technical consultation and boiler performance evaluations, KVB provided combustion gas emission characterizations and supplementary technical consultation. 

The approved execution plan and schedule must remain unchanged and become the basis to evaluate project performance. When contractors say "I meet all my schedules," they sometimes mean "I met the last revision of all my schedules." Even if the working schedules must be revised as required to preserve their meaningfulness, contractors should never be allowed to change the original approved schedule. 

Contractors Performance - The performance of active contractors must be evaluated and documented periodically. 

Preparing the appropriation estimate and MPS offers the Project Manager and the entire project team an excellent opportunity to get a firm grip on the project and gives them the best tools to monitor and evaluate contractors performance. As an experienced project manager said once... 

Conducting regular periodic evaluation of actual work performed (earned units) and comparing them with the estimate and the contractors daily force reports the project team can keep close tabs on ... 

Andrews, R. A. et al. 1995. Total system performance assessment-J 995 An evaluation of the potential Yucca Mountain repository. Las Vegas, NV Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Management and Operating Contractor. 

Particularly in soil stabilization contracts where success or failure of a job may be borderline, it is imperative that job specifications clearly delineate the future performance that both the owner and the contractor agree upon as representing either success or failure. When work is being done primarily to increase a safety factor, it is equally important that the specifications detail methods of evaluating the work done. 

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. 

Supplier involvement the standard states Henkel evaluates the SHE performance of its suppliers and contractors and encourages them to strive for safety, health and environmental standards equivalent to its own. In spite of this the report does not suggest there is a strategy in place by which this will be routinely brought about. 

The safety of contractors who may be exposed to process hazards has become a great concern since the occurrence of very serious incidents at Pasadena, Texas (October 23, 1989), and Chan-nelview, Texas (July 5, 1990). Employers are now required to (1) evaluate the safety performance of contractors (2) inform contract employers concerning fire, explosion, and toxicity hazards (3) ascertain that contractor employees understand the site s emergency plan (4) control the presence of contractors in process areas and (5) maintain an injury and illness log related to a contractor s work in process areas [1(h), 2(87), 5, 42]. 

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