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Economic recession, broken supply chains, and the COVID-19 pandemic have made it difficult, if not impossible, for businesses to rely on what’s worked for them in the past to manage supply chain risk. To help ensure business continuity and growth, training professionals are scrambling to adjust safety and risk management strategies, conducting programs remotely and restructuring in-person sessions to adhere to new guidelines.

By relying on effective technology and expertise to ensure contractors and vendors are qualified and compliant with company and industry-specific policies, rental companies can better manage evolving risks to create stronger, safer businesses.

Companies rely heavily on third-party contractors for hazardous work, which presents a variety of contractor management challenges, including preventing worker injuries, protecting the company’s reputation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mitigating potential financial risk if an incident does occur.

In Part 2, we’ll review a short overview of the “Model” Plan for OQ that’s been proposed by the NYSDPS and offering some ideas for how technology and other aspects of a third-party OQ vendor’s solution can help support the types of OQ program improvements that would be required by the NYSDPS’s proposed changes.