Health and Safety Management in Supply Chain

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Why Improving Safety Performance is Important in the Supply Chain

You have strategies in place to monitor and manage health and safety and influence culture and behaviors within your organization; but, what about your supply chain? Are the suppliers, contractors, and vendors who work for you similarly motivated to achieve health and safety goals? Do their standards, performance, and culture align with yours?

Avetta helps the world’s leading organizations proactively manage health and safety in their supply chains through contractor prequalification, document management, auditing, employee-level qualification and training, insurance verification, and business intelligence. Our cloud-based technology and services help foster a culture of health and safety by raising awareness and providing greater visibility of risk throughout the supply chain.

Proactive Environmental Health & Safety

A proactive approach to health and safety management is the key to improving performance. Avetta’s supply chain risk management solutions help companies to align with suppliers that share similar standards for health and safety, and with the assurance that they meet established policies and procedures.

Supplier Prequalification

Increase visibility of your supply chain by accessing supplier safety statistics and risk profiles in a single system. Track historical data and use leading indicators to align with suppliers that meet your safety criteria. Self-reported information is verified by Avetta to ensure accuracy and is updated on a yearly basis.

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Supplier Audits

Minimize supply chain safety risk and increase visibility into how suppliers implement documented policies and procedures. Avetta’s world-class supplier auditing service includes safety, sustainability, quality assurance, and on-site field audits while providing best practice guidance.

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Worker Management

Avetta helps organizations to deliver and manage their supplier qualification and training processes down to the individual employee level. Health and safety training can be customized and deployed for individual sites to speed up the supplier induction process.

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Improving Supply Chain Health & Safety Culture

To improve long-term health and safety performance, organizations must look past their own corporate culture and into the supply chain. Through careful audits and assessments, they must evaluate and partner with the goal of aligning themselves to contractors who share similar values and safety culture.

Avetta connects organizations with qualified suppliers. We have collected, and continue to collect, a wealth of data to provide customers with a true picture of the risk profile of suppliers and contractors. We probe contractors to get an accurate sense of management engagement and culture and then use secondary resources to support that information.

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Measuring Health & Safety Performance

Measurement is an essential part of any management process as it provides a mechanism for continuous improvement. Measuring health and safety performance is no different, but identifying and selecting the best metrics can be challenging. The most effective approach for a complete picture is to combine both leading and lagging indicators.

	LEADING INDICATORS	LAGGING INDICATORS
Definition	Measure program content and activities performed to prevent incidents	Measure past incidents and incident rates
Examples	Safety Management Systems Manuals & Training Safety Audits Employee Interviews	TRIR EMR DART Fatalities
Benefits	Better predictors of future H&S performance Measure the presence of safety practices, instead of the absence of injury More accountability for preventing injury and illness	Easier to collect and benchmark Show progress (or lack thereof) towards safety goals
Implementation and Best Practices	Use a 3rd party auditing service Review Safety Manuals Establish a schedule for auditing both work sites and documentation/training	Establish a single location to store all safety-related statistics and documentation for your supply chain Make sure the data is verified Make sure the data is updated annually for accuracy
Avetta Services	Supplier Auditing Supplier Employee Qualification & Training	Prequalification & Document Management

	LEADING INDICATORS
Definition	Measure program content and activities performed to prevent incidents
Examples	Safety Management Systems Manuals & Training Safety Audits Employee Interviews
Benefits	Better predictors of future H&S performance Measure the presence of safety practices, instead of the absence of injury More accountability for preventing injury and illness
Implementation and Best Practices	Use a 3rd party auditing service Review Safety Manuals Establish a schedule for auditing both work sites and documentation/training
Avetta Services	Supplier Auditing Supplier Employee Qualification & Training

	LAGGING INDICATORS
Definition	Measure past incidents and incident rates
Examples	TRIR EMR DART Fatalities
Benefits	Easier to collect and benchmark Show progress (or lack thereof) towards safety goals
Implementation and Best Practices	Establish a single location to store all safety-related statistics and documentation for your supply chain Make sure the data is verified Make sure the data is updated annually for accuracy
Avetta Services	Prequalification & Document Management

Reporting & Analysis

Avetta Analytics helps organizations to track health and safety performance by providing data for both leading and lagging indicators. Gain unprecedented visibility into your supply chain by analyzing supplier safety statistics and risk profiles in a single system. Avetta Analytics enables better business decisions and drives health & safety performance with:

Real-Time and Historical Data

Report Templates

Simple, Intuitive User Interface

Custom Analysis Builder

Automatic Report Scheduling and Distribution

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Testimonials

"I look at our competitors, and their core safety structure looks like it was built on toothpicks compared to ours. Avetta helped us make health and safety a priority, which resulted in business growth and the competitive advantage."

BILL WOOD

Director of Client Relations,
Alliance Group, Inc