Developing an “electrical” multi-employer worksite protection program

You are the host of many electrical contractors, and their electrical/non-electrical subcontractors who work at your sites on a daily basis. During your large planned outages it is necessary to bring in additional electrical/non-electrical contractors to perform maintenance & repairs on your sites electrical equipment. You are subject to OSHA´s Multi-Employer Worksite Policy CPL 02-00-124 and have a completely different set of responsibilities and risks to mitigate. You need to start asking questions and obtaining data from each contractor to protect your company and yourself. You must know what your site hazards are, as well as how your contractor plans to mitigate those hazards. This paper will provide an overview of OSHA´s Multi-Employer Worksite Policy CPL 02-00-124. In addition details will be provided on how to prevent regulatory multi-employer worksite issues with contractors that routinely work at your site, as well as those contractors who periodically work on site.