NSC Launches Contractor Safety Survey on Serious Injuries and Fatalities
The National Safety Council has launched a new survey targeting how organizations manage contractor-related serious injuries and fatalities, Safety+Health Magazine reports. The 10-minute online survey seeks input from both companies that hire contractors and firms that perform contract work, covering topics including contractor inclusion in SIF definitions, reporting expectations for SIFs and potential SIFs (pSIFs), critical control verification, prequalification and oversight practices, and SIF metrics and investigations. NSC says its SIF Prevention Model pushes organizations to move past traditional injury metrics and instead focus on the exposures, hazards and control failures that can lead to catastrophic outcomes. The council states that preventing SIFs requires learning from near-misses, verifying critical controls, and identifying catastrophic risk before an incident occurs.
What It Means for Subcontractors
- Subs that perform contract work for larger operators have a direct opportunity to shape how prequalification and oversight standards get written by weighing in on NSC’s survey questions covering contractor SIF programs and reporting expectations.
- Firms managing crews under multiple GCs should expect SIF and pSIF reporting requirements to tighten industry-wide once NSC compiles results. Companies in civil, mechanical, and E&I trades that already track near-miss data will be better positioned to meet new benchmarks.
- NSC has not yet published a survey deadline or results timeline. Subcontractors should check the National Safety Council’s site directly for the closing date once announced, since that window determines the last chance to influence upcoming contractor safety standards.
