Comments on: How to Create a Visitor’s Safety Policy

Comments on: How to Create a Visitor’s Safety Policy http://www.safetyxchange.org/compliance-risk-management/why-you-need-one-how-to-create-it-part-1-of-2 Putting Safety First Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2019 hourly 1 By: timothy_healey@hsb.com http://www.safetyxchange.org/compliance-risk-management/why-you-need-one-how-to-create-it-part-1-of-2/comment-page-1#comment-310 timothy_healey@hsb.com Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:44 +0000 http://www.safetyxchange.org/article.php?id=433#comment-310 I trust your upcoming model visitor's safety policy will include a facility's ability to distinguish between a Visitor and a Contractor. Visitors defined perhaps as a single person or a small group who is escorted while on site as both a safety and a security measure. By contrast, 'contractors' may be those people who are invited onto the facility to conduct some specified work in accordance with a written agreement (the contract)and who require unescorted access for at least part of the facility. I guess you can see that this is a sensitive topic, as time and again I see a 'one size fits all' approach at faciities that typically seek to impose excessive, unworkable mandates by having a single 'Contractor Safety Procedure' that assumes that an outside entity invited onto their site will be doing construction-type work including hot work, tranching, heavy vehicle operations, and so on. Great topic. I look forward to your next installment. - Tim I trust your upcoming model visitor's safety policy will include a facility's ability to distinguish between a Visitor and a Contractor. Visitors defined perhaps as a single person or a small group who is escorted while on site as both a safety and a security measure. By contrast, 'contractors' may be those people who are invited onto the facility to conduct some specified work in accordance with a written agreement (the contract)and who require unescorted access for at least part of the facility.

I guess you can see that this is a sensitive topic, as time and again I see a 'one size fits all' approach at faciities that typically seek to impose excessive, unworkable mandates by having a single 'Contractor Safety Procedure' that assumes that an outside entity invited onto their site will be doing construction-type work including hot work, tranching, heavy vehicle operations, and so on.

Great topic. I look forward to your next installment.

- Tim

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