Electric Utilities Sector Supplement - Global Reporting Initiative

EU16: Policies and requirements
regarding health and safety of
employees and employees of contractors
and subcontractors.
1. Relevance
Given that contractor and subcontractor employees may
engage in high-risk activities, reporting organizations are
expected to ensure that they are trained on health and
safety issues (e.g. electrocution, falling objects, confined
spaces, containers, etc) for their own protection. It is
important to report on contractors and subcontractors
since there is a trend in the electricity utility sector
towards outsourcing work to third parties.
This indicator does not directly address health and safety
of the communities served, but relevant health and
safety training of workers indirectly ensures health and
safety of the surrounding communities.
2. Compilation
2.1 Identify policies on employee classification
given health and safety training (e.g. employees,
employees of contractors and subconctractors,
office staff, plant workers, field workers, etc).
2.2 Identify requirements of training provided (e.g.
onsite, offsite, formal, informal, internal training,
provided by external organisation, etc).
2.3 Identify policies and requirements on health
and safety programs to provide equipment for
employees of all classes and the employees of
contractors and subcontractors.
2.4 Report the policies and requirements, including
monitoring and compliance systems in place
related to health and safety training of employees
and employees of contractors and subcontractors.
3. Definitions
Contractor
Indicator Protocols Set: LA
Contractors are companies working onsite or offsite on
behalf of the reporting organization with a relationship
to the reporting organization determined by a contract.
A contractor may hire their own staff directly and/or
hire sub-contractors or independent contractors.
Sub-contractor
Sub-contractors are companies working onsite or offsite
on behalf of the reporting organization and will have
a direct contractual relationship with a contractor /
sub-contractor but not necessarily with the reporting
organization.
A sub-contractor may hire their own staff directly or
hire independent contractors.
Independent contractor
An independent contractor is an individual working
for the reporting organization, a contractor, or a
subcontractor who has a contract but is not a formal
employee.
4. Documentation
This information can be obtained from Human
Resources departments.
5. References
None.
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