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Employers have a responsibility to ensure (so far as is reasonably practicable) that they look after the safety & wellbeing of those that can be affected by their undertaking. This can include contractors and vetting contractors to make sure they can carry our work safely.

 

To help with this the Health & Safety Executive have a produced a useful guidance document which details what Employers should be doing to control the use of contractors: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg368.htm.