Major accidents involving contractors

Outsourcing is a general practice in many chemical process industries. Examples of common outsourced activities involving contractors are usually maintenance and installation tasks, such as assembling pipelines, hot work (welding storage tanks or pipe parts that are connected to equipment containing dangerous substances), cleaning and painting. Contract workers are generally not familiar with the site or installation and cannot be assumed to have much knowledge about the risks associated with the dangerous substances on the site. Risks that are obvious to employees may not be at all obvious to contract workers. Hence, to a large extent, the individual risk to contractors at a hazard installation is potentially higher than to employees of the site.

GYENES Zsuzsanna; 

2016-01-21

Institution of Chemical Engineers

JRC99052

0260-9576,   

https://www.icheme.org/shop/lpb/2015/issue%20245/major%20accidents%20involving%20contractors.aspx,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC99052,