Occupational safety in shared industrial workplaces

The amount of outsourcing has increased over the passing years. Employees from several employers are often working in the same workplace with diverse working methods. Companies already have good practices relating both to occupational safety of their own employees and those of their partners. This paper presents the results of interviews concerning the kind of practices industrial service providers and their customers have adopted in order to achieve a good level of occupational safety for both partners. The most important issues identified were that everyone must have a commitment to occupational safety as well as there being close co-operation between contracting parties. Occupational safety must be taken into account in every phase of the contract period, i.e., from initial negotiation of a contract to final conclusion of the contract.