When your company relies on contractors, it’s important you choose those who represent your company well. After all, the reputation of your company depends on the delivered results. With an in-depth contractor qualification system, you can be safe in the knowledge your contractors follow the right guidelines and regulations, and are compliant. Let’s take a look at what you can do to work with the right people, and to protect your business.

Ongoing qualification

Contractor qualification doesn’t end when the selection process ends, but is an ongoing process for the duration of the project. Some things to pay attention to are:

• Your contractor qualification system should include an easy way of collecting and storing documentation to ensure compliance, and make it easy to find necessary documents down the road.
• Having your contractors address safety risks specific to your project, and avoid them trying to apply ‘catch-all’ safety measures – which don’t exist.
• How do contractors avoid incidents, and how do they tackle urgent changes? If your company faces a bump in the road, you want everyone involved to give it their all. It’s your name on the line, and your customers facing consequences.

With consistent, and ongoing qualification, you can trust your contractors to have a strong safety culture of their own. You avoid accidentally hiring a firm which will cause you to lose customers for a mistake they made.

Nothing falls through the cracks

At all points in the project, you need to be aware of your contractor’s progress, of their results, and how they are representing your company. Communication is the sore spot in this aspect. Sometimes you don’t always get the same person responding to your queries, or your contractors can’t get a hold of the right people on your side. If you can’t communicate effectively, there is no way of telling how your project is going, and how your company is being represented. Contractor management will help you keep tabs on how your business is doing on the inside, and outside.

The software solution

Our Contractor Management module takes care of everything. It gives you and the contractors a single point of contact, a single place of communication, and a streamlined hub to find all the documentation you need to check compliance, permits, and all those other pesky administrative tasks. Using software drastically decreases the time spent on administration, and it’s free for contractors, so you’ll have no difficulties getting them on board. And as soon as you see what we have, you’ll jump on board with us! Don’t believe it? Try us: go here to find out more about the module and make us prove everything we’ve just claimed.