Managing Vendor Compliance With Health and Safety Rules
If you’re a business that’s outsourcing services, don’t think for one moment that you’re shedding responsibility for the health and safety of a vendor’s staff when they show up on your premises.
It’s routine nowadays for companies and their supply chains to pass off the performance of certain services to outsourced providers. But they remain responsible for vetting contractors’ compliance with health and safety rules. As they navigate the coronavirus pandemic, companies must assert tight control over those independent parties. (As well as, it goes without saying, their own staff.) What’s more, in the era of COVID-19, the definition of what constitutes a health or safety risk has been greatly expanded.
