Subcontractors responsibilities

Does the organization (internal or subcontractor) responsible for providing chemical safety support use a training implementation plan to manage staff training and qualifications ... 

Six months into the two-year project, one of the major subcontractors responsible for multistory steel-beam erection had employees working over 30 feet in the air without fall protection. After the second observation of this violation, the plant safety manager ordered the workers down, informed the contractor of the repeat violation, and initiated the process to terminate the contract. The contractor was removed from the project and replaced by a firm that accomplished all the goals initially established by the textile manufacturer. The plant manager in this scenario did not compromise. As a result, the project was completed on time with only one OSHA-recordable injury. 

Specify prime contractor responsibihties during construction regarding commissioning coordination of prime and subcontractor responsibilities in cooperation with the commissioning authority. 

The electrical contractor is the subcontractor responsible for the Installation of electrical equipment within the building. 

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. 

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,... 

Subcontractors are responsible for the health and safety of their employees and for complying with the requirements established in the HASP and the guidelines established in Safety Rules for Contractors. Subcontractors will report to the SM. 

The next step is to talk to individual task managers or others who can expect to perform the work. This may include subcontractors or other personnel who will perform work on the site. If contractors are involved, a decision should be made as to the relationship and responsibility for overall safety responsibility. If the HASP is likely to be adopted by others, this should be kept in mind during development. 

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. 

Project managers or health and safety staff are responsible for obtaining and verifying training and medical certifications for individual subcontractors employees assigned to a project. 

Notwithstanding the guidance given below under Evaluation and selection of subcontractors, this requirement does not relieve you of the responsibility for ensuring the quality of subcontracted parts, materials, and services. Therefore, it would be unwise to place orders on a customer-specified subcontractor without first going through your evaluation and selection process. You can obviously take some short cuts but don t make assumptions. The customer will not be sympathetic when you are late on delivery or your price escalates. If you find a subcontractor that can meet all your product/service requirements at a lower price you can submit details to your customer for approval. 

Subcontractor/supplier performance will be evident from audit reports, surveillance visit reports, and receipt inspections carried out by you or the third party if one has been employed. You need to examine these documents for evidence that the subcontractor s quality system is controlling the quality of the products and services supplied. You can determine the effectiveness of these controls by periodic review of the subcontractor s performance what some firms call vendor rating . By collecting data on the performance of subcontractors/suppliers over a long period you can measure their effectiveness and rate them on a scale from excellent to poor. In such cases you should measure at least three characteristics quality, delivery, and service. Quality would be measured by the ratio of defective conforming products received delivery would be measured by the number of days early or late and service would be measured by the responsiveness to actions requested by you on scale of excellent to poor. The output of these reviews should be in the form of updates to the list of assessed subcontractors/suppliers. 

Provide those responsible for the preparation of subcontracts requirements to approve them prior to issue to the subcontractor. 

The number of people involved in a project varies with its size and scope. Not every project has a different person responsible for each task. To make the best use of your resources when deciding who is responsible for a portion of your project, broaden your point of view to include subcontractors and service departments as well as members of the project team. 

Site work is now mostly carried out by a number of subcontractors representing specialist trades. It is essential that authority and executive action are in the hands of a main contractor and that this authority is acknowledged by the subcontractors. If this is not so, delays and omissions will occur, with divided responsibility and lack of remedial action. 

GR-6.2.2.3 Subcontractor Control. The subcontractor services shall be controlled by the processes of procurement, quality review, and surveillance, including receiving inspection, supported by the proper documentation. The subcontractor shall provide a Quality Control System (manual), documented procedures, and applicable work instructions. The construction organization shall be responsible for approval of all subcontract services. 

Is responsibility accepted for ensuring that the procedures employed by a subcontractor for calibration and measurement work are suitable and properly documented ... 

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In general, a pharmacy manager and/or privacy officer (in consultation with legal counsel) should tailor the pharmacy s relationships with business associates via the business associate contract. The overarching goals in an appropriately constructed business associate contract are to minimize the business associate s exposure to PHI while clearly establishing what uses of the PHI are permitted by the business associate. The privacy officer should have a clear idea of what business associates plan to do with any PHI they obtain and should make sure that any subcontractors have similar agreements. The privacy officer should monitor the business associate for any violations of the contract. In fact, the contract should stipulate that it is the responsibility of the business associate to report unauthorized disclosures of PHI. Finally, the privacy officer is responsible for the disposition of any PHI released to the business associate and should make sure that after it has been used by the business associate, PHI is either returned, held securely, or destroyed. 

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. 

Subcontractors on the jobsite should be responsible for start-up as well as installation of equipment. Equipment manufacturers typically have personnel available to ensure appropriate start-up procedures are followed. If several trades are involved in the installation of a particular piece of equipment, then one trade should be assigned, by contract, as having coordinating responsibility for that piece of equipment. This will minimize finger pointing when equipment does not start or operate properly. This can be a sensitive issue and a construction manager can set the tone for cooperation in this area. 

An independent contractor responsible to the construction manager or owner should do testing and balancing (TAB) of mechanical systems. All start-up should be complete and initial valve or damper settings made (and recorded) by the subcontractor before testing and balancing begins. The TAB contractor should not have to repair equipment or troubleshoot inoperative equipment but rather only adjust and verify performance of equipment. 

One of the responsibilities of the Construction Manager is to generate, and/or insure that the subcontractors do, sufficient documentation to ... 

When construction is awarded on a lump sum basis, most of the risks as well as the cost control function is assumed by the subcontractors. The Owner s main cost control responsibility is limited to controlling extras and monitoring quality and progress. On small projects, the Owner s Project Manager could act as Construction Manager and be directly involved in the cost control activities. 

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