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Every contractor that comes onto your site will have their own personal values regarding safety. The potential risks this places on their own personal safety as well as that of others in your organisation can be enormous. It is up to you, not the contractor, to place controls around how safety is valued in your workplace. Your organisation's Contractor Induction will always be your best opportunity to create value and knowledge around your specific safety issues. An Example: One of your operations in need of some emergency electrical work. Two electrical contractors have arrived on site. But before they can commence their work, they need to take a contractor induction course. The site supervisor sits them in the training room, pops on the video, tells them to sign the form once they have seen the video and heads back to the floor - after all, he's a very busy man. What happens now? The contractors watch the video - for a few minutes. They've seen it all before a hundred times. They talk about their weekend instead. Not only have they not received the safety information relevant to the site, they have been shown that your organisation doesn't really take safety that seriously - it's just legal protocol. A dangerous precedence has been set. Now imagine this: The contractors, when assigned the job, are asked to complete an online contractor induction before they arrive on site. They can do it at home on their own time. The interactive induction requires them to answer questions as they take the course. If they get a question wrong they are taken back to the relevant page and asked a different question about the same information. Not only are they forced to actually read and understand the information, they are shown that your organisation places value on them understanding your safety information. The two contractors now enter your site with a better understanding of what they need to know, but, because they know you mean business, they also have stronger values toward workplace safety. 6 benefits of taking your contractor induction online: Every contractor that comes onto your site will have their own personal values regarding safety . The potential risks this places on their own personal safety as well as that of others in your organisation can be enormous. It is up to you, not the contractor, to place controls around how safety is valued in your workplace. Your organisation's Contractor Induction will always be your best opportunity to create value and knowledge around your specific safety issues .
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