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Project Onboarding This may be the most laborious activity that is created for every project that’s announced. There are usually multiple levels, contractors, subcontractor workers and employees brought together in a short timeframe. In the majority of projects, assembling workers from multiple...

Project Information Portals

Dashboards and Portals, H&S Dashboards, H&S Information Portals, H&S Management

Communication - The transfer of information How was information communicated on your last project? Documents were emailed to all stakeholders as they came on to the A link to a Sharepoint address was shared to certain individual An individual H&S member of the prime contractor was noted as the...

Project Health and Safety Management Systems

H&S Management, Prime Contractor, Subcontractor

Health and Safety Management System There are always two and sometimes three HSMSs in play on a project. Owner Prime Contractor (May also be the Owner) Subcontractors (Multiple) Rarely are these systems built the same way and each has a different outlook regarding the management of the project’s...

Pen vs Pixels. What’s holding you back?

COR, Field Safety, H&S Administration, H&S Management

Where we at now? I work with a lot of different companies and get to take part in numerous safety programs. One common trait I see throughout 90% of the companies is the generation of mounds of paper. Why do companies operating in today’s electronic age refuse to move their safety program to an...

Paper Based H&S Systems

COR, Field Safety, H&S Administration, H&S Management, Reporting

What's the Purpose? Being in business today requires that companies must have a Health and Safety program that it can produce to perspective clients for review. Quite often the submitted “Safety Program” items consist of a manual, WCB records and insurance certificates. That’s it, nothing more....

It hit the Fan!

Field Safety, H&S Management, Incident Reporting, Project Reporting, Reporting

Another Incident! My phone rang mid afternoon, there’s been an incident and I have to get over to site asap. An excavator had been travelling down a ROW and the operator had unknowingly walked onto a snow covered beaver pond and broke through the ice. He was able to get out of the machine but we...

H&S Inspections

Field Safety, H&S Management, Inspections, Prime Contractor, Project Reporting, Subcontractor

What Inspections are we doing? Project worksites may be a stationary single location, or mobile, as in a pipeline build. The types of inspections required will vary with the type of project, since certain items won’t be utilized on mobile sites. Single location projects will have more support...

Contractor H&S Incident Reporting

Field Safety, H&S Management, Incident Reporting, Reporting, Subcontractor

Tick, Tick, Tick,.. When an incident occurs on site, the clock starts, just like in the television show “48 Hours”. In that timeframe, as a subcontractor, you’ll be required to Give initial notice, freeze the scene, Care for the injured, Collect Tailboard, Permits, FLHA’s from site, Submit an...

H&S Processes and Workflows

H&S Dashboards, H&S Management, Prime Contractor, Project Reporting, Subcontractor

Process/Workflow/Value Process is a sequence of tasks; Process is something that exists naturally and flows intuitively. Workflow is a way to make this sequence more productive and efficient; A workflow is analyzed, planned, modeled, and automated consciously and with well-defined purposes. Value...

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