For Project Owners
Make Sure the Safety Program You Hired Reaches the Crews.
On a capital project, the safety program a contractor submits and the work their crews do can drift far apart. P2-Driven HSE gives owners and contractors one simple system to close that gap, so everyone on your site does the job right and goes home unharmed today.
What You Carry
You’re Responsible for Crews You Don’t Direct.
You hire contractors to build and maintain the assets your company runs, and most of the people on your site work for someone else. You carry every contractor crew on that site, your company’s name on the permit, and a schedule the business is counting on.
You can require, prequalify, and audit. You can’t direct the contractor’s work.
What you want
- Contractors who deliver the safety program they promised
- Projects That Finish on Schedule
- Owner reps who can help without taking over
- A site where everyone goes home unharmed, whoever signs their paycheck
What Stands in the Way
The Paper Promise
The distance between the safety program a contractor submits to win the work and what their crews do on site.
Nobody chose it. Contractors bid with their best program, and owners judge what they can see before the job starts. The Paper Promise grows between the kickoff meeting and the first hard week on site, while good people on both sides are busy building the project.
You’ve seen its faces
- The top prequalification grade on a crew that has never seen the program.
- The subcontractor two tiers down that nobody vetted.
- The kickoff meeting where everyone agrees, and the second week when everyone forgets.
- The contractor safety manager covering four sites at once.
- The owner rep who can see the problem but can’t direct the work.
The Paper Promise Never Shows Up in the Prequalification Grade. It Shows Up on Your Site.
What It Costs
What the Paper Promise Costs
On Your Site
Contractor incidents on your site. Stand-downs that stop every crew, not only the one involved. Environmental releases under your permit. Regulators, neighbors, and the board asking you what happened.
On You
You feel responsible for people you don’t control. You set the requirements, check the paperwork, and walk the site, and you still find out about the near miss after it happened. Push too hard and you’re directing the work. Step back too far and you’re hoping for the best.
Everyone who works on your site deserves to go home unharmed, whoever signs their paycheck.
Your Guide
“When I became contractor safety director for a $60B company, my guidance was two sentences. Don’t direct the contractor’s work, and don’t slow up production unnecessarily.”Jesse Hardy, CSP
“A few days later, I started listing the common threads in the thousands of incidents I’d investigated. That list became the eight Principles.”
“I’ve led HSEQ on both sides of the owner-contractor relationship.”
Results
- At a $60B crude oil pipeline company, held owner-side contractor safety accountability for about $3B in construction and maintenance. Built the contractor safety management system, from selection and prequalification through field audits, third-party verification, and contractor summits, and reduced injuries 18% in two years.
- On the contractor side of a $3B+ Arctic oil development, the total injury rate fell 73% while project hours grew 231%, the property damage rate fell 85%, and the environmental incident rate fell 98%.
- Across 31 concurrent projects, serious injuries and fatalities went to zero.
Ten years in the field, project to project, then ten years leading HSEQ as a director, VP, and EVP, then 18 months back on the North Slope. CSP, CUSP, and ISO 9001 Lead Auditor.
More About Jesse →The Plan
Three Steps to Make the Promise Hold
2 to 4 weeks
Understand Your Contractors’ Working Reality.
Jesse runs a Working Reality Assessment across your active projects: site walks with contractor crews, interviews with owner reps and contractor leaders, and a review of prequalification and field data. You see which contractors deliver what they promised.
From each kickoff
Set the Expectation Once.
Your Purpose and the eight Principles become the shared language in contract requirements, kickoff meetings, and contractor summits. Every contractor hears the same thing from day one.
Through closeout
Help Contractors Carry It to the Crews.
Contractor leaders get the Boots On The Ground tools and field coaching, and owner reps learn to coach the work without directing it.
The assessment takes two to four weeks across your active projects. The rollout lines up with each project’s kickoff, and field coaching runs through closeout.
What you can count on
What’s at Stake
Two Ways This Goes
Who You Become
From Policing Contractors to Partnering With Them
Free Guide
8 Questions to Ask Every Contractor at Kickoff
For project owners who want the safety program they were promised. One page, built on the eight Principles.
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Do the Job Right and Go Home Unharmed Today.
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