Safety Oversight Of Contractors Sample Clauses

Safety Oversight Of Contractors. The Contractor Safety Standard provides guidance on the roles and responsibilities of PG&E employees who manage and oversee contractors engaged in high or medium risk work. Each PG&E Line of Business and organization engaged in high or medium risk work, by the end of 2015, will develop and approve contractor oversight procedures to implement the Contractor Safety Standard in a manner that is tailored to address unique business characteristics and needs. These procedures shall be implemented by the end of 2016. For high risk work performed by a contractor, the Contractor Safety Standard will require the contractor to provide a project-specific safety plan for the work to be performed. The safety plan for such high risk work will address the training qualifications and staffing plans for safety professionals that the contractor will have overseeing the project. The level of detail of the safety plans will be sufficient to allow qualified PG&E staff to assess the risk of the project. Prior to commencement of work by the contractor, PG&E will review the adequacy of the safety plan, including contractor safety personnel qualifications where applicable, and perform a safety assessment to evaluate whether additional safety mitigations are required, including whether to assign PG&E onsite safety personnel. Such review will be conducted by PG&E employees that are qualified to perform such work or PG&E will engage third party experts as appropriate to perform the safety analysis. SED agrees that PG&E’s hiring of any such third party experts to perform the foregoing safety analysis does not violate PG&E’s obligations under Xxxxxx v. The PG&E Line of Business contractor oversight procedures will specify the level of contractor oversight and frequency of safety observations. PG&E will share a sample Line of Business contractor oversight procedure with SED for comment and review by March 1, 2015. In addition, for high risk work, the Line of Business oversight procedures will address how to determine whether PG&E will assign its own onsite safety personnel, who must be formally trained in safety management and incident cause evaluation. Implementation of the oversight procedures by the Lines of Business will be audited via field observations on a periodic basis described in the procedure itself. PG&E will make the results of the field observations available to SED on a mutually agreeable schedule.