Create platforms and processes around your construction risk assessment that can benefit you and your subcontractors.
Successfully delivering a construction project relies on multiple factors coming together. For the Commercial Director, the success of a project largely relies on the strength of the relationship with subcontractors.
In order to have a smooth relationship with the subcontractor, a Commercial Director must:
- have complete visibility of project data at any given time
- collaborate and share pertinent project data with subcontractors.
As you can see, a workable construction risk assessment is defined completely by the data available.
Visibility of information
To successfully balance the requirements of the project with the resources of the contractor, the Commercial Director needs complete visibility of:
- each project in progress, in order to define project milestones, deliverables and completion rate
- subcontractors and their resources, enabling a review of skills and placement
- the availability of resources so that they can be allocated in a timely, cost-effective fashion.
By collecting all project-related data centrally, the construction risk assessment can be regularly updated as new information becomes available, raising standards across each site. Even data that is not directly related to the Commercial Director’s role will help inform decision making throughout the organisation, providing further return on investment. This data will also take the status and needs of the subcontractors into account.
Collaboration
Subcontractors are rarely monogamous, working on several projects for multiple clients at a time. Although this practice helps to keep the subcontractor’s balance books healthy, it also makes it much harder for the Commercial Director to properly allocate or plan resource usage.
It makes sense to provide a central data sharing platform for your subcontractors to log resource details availability. As well as making this information instantly available to the Commercial Director, subcontractors also benefit from the same data visibility, making it easier for them to plan workloads and resource allocations.
Assessing and managing risks means having access to important information such as details of Construction Skills Certification Scheme cards, qualifications and certifications for each on-site subcontractor. This information can be used so Commercial Directors can ensure that they have the correct workers on-site and that each worker has the relevant industry accreditations. This will reduce the likelihood of a poor construction risk assessment. It also provides a simple way to prove compliance in the event of an HSE visit.
Data collaboration becomes a win-win for you and your subcontractors, helping you both access vital resourcing information in real time. This will strengthen the bond between your businesses and ensure neither party feels as though they are getting the short end of the deal. A centralised storage location for shared data ensures access to all the information needed to carry out an informed construction risk assessment.
