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This paper aims at studying the implementation of an innovative process for the qualification and evaluation of safety standards for European and non-European service providers in the handling of contracts, governed by Legislative Decree no. 81 of 2008, known as the Safety Code, the binding legislation on safety in force in Italy.

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International Journal of Management (IJM) Volume 8, Issue 4, July– August 2017, pp.40–51, Article ID: IJM_08_04_006 Available online at http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=8&IType=4 Journal Impact Factor (2016): 8.1920 (Calculated by GISI) www.jifactor.com ISSN Print: 0976-6502 and ISSN Online: 0976-6510 © IAEME Publication AN INNOVATIVE PROCESS FOR THE QUALIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF OCCUPATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT UNDER THE OHSAS 18001 STANDARD Gambera Vanessa Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania, Corso Italia 55- 95129, Catania ABSTRACT Accidents in the workplace over the last few years have registered a reassuring downturn due to the development of a safety policy in workplaces which has allowed a significant reduction in accidents, incidents or occupational illnesses occurring in the workplace. Workplace safety is a top priority in welfare policies and the company plays a central role in development policies. Specific legislation, both compulsory and voluntary is important, in order to raise companies’ awareness of the spread of a culture of safety. This paper aims at studying the implementation of an innovative process for the qualification and evaluation of safety standards for European and non-European service providers in the handling of contracts, governed by Legislative Decree no. 81 of 2008, known as the Safety Code, the binding legislation on safety in force in Italy. The analysis is conducted through the study of the process of purchasing service supplies, considering the impact that this process has on the protection of health and safety at workplaces. For this purpose, the process of implementing a health and safety management system in the workplace, certified according to the OHSAS 18001: 2007 standard was analyzed within a primary electronics industry company, located in Eastern Sicily. A suitable procedure was therefore identified to be included in the company’s management manual, so as to standardize the technical evaluation procedure of the European and non-European service providers which the company operates with, in the search for the Safety requirements that these suppliers have to possess. This procedure makes it possible to efficiently evaluate and qualify service providers in the absence of legislative indications on contract management with European and non-European suppliers. Key words: Checklist, Safety Requirements, Risk Management, Procedure, Implementation. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 40 editor@iaeme.com
Gambera Vanessa Cite this Article: An Innovative Process for the Qualification and Evaluation of occupational Risk Management under the OHSAS 18001 Standard. International Journal of Management, 8 (4), 2017, pp. 40–51. http://www.iaeme.com/ijm/issues.asp?JType=IJM&VType=8&IType=4 1. INTRODUCTION International health and safety standards have emerged since 1996. In that year, in a workshop on occupational health and safety organized at Geneva by ISO, the majority of participants stated that they were opposed to establishing laws on the matter [1]. In November 1998, the British Standard Institution (BSI) advanced its request to set up a Technical Committee, consisting of the major national regulatory bodies, certification bodies and specialist consultants, so that it could outline a management model for health insurance and for safety in the workplace with universal validity and certifiable by a third party. Numerous partners participated in the drafting of the specification. The group's work resulted in the OHSAS 18001 "Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series". The Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001, OHSAS 18001, was formulated by international certifying bodies based on British Standards 8800 (BS 8800). OHSAS 18001 was first published in 1999 in conformity with quality (ISO 9001) and environmental (ISO 14001) management systems standards in order to facilitate an integration of the three systems [2]. The Integrated Management System (IMS) is known as a system that merges the components of business into one system. IMS implementation includes ISO 9001 Quality Management, ISO 14001 Environment Management and Occupational Health and Safety Management OHSAS 18001 but it is not just limited to these standards [3]. The objectives of OHSAS 18001 include creating and maintaining a safe working environment while protecting and maintaining the good health of the workers. The implementation and certification of OHSAS 18001 systems have been an important undertaking for many organizations and have become a widespread phenomenon around the world [4]. The safety management system is designed to deal with occupational health and safety in a systematic way by the following activities: • setting company safety targets and objectives; • designating roles and responsibilities for safety personnel; • planning and performing hazard mitigation; • monitoring, measuring, and improving the on-going system and its effectiveness. Measurement is a key step in any management process and forms the basis of continual improvement. If measurement is not carried out correctly, the effectiveness of the Safety Management Systems (SMS) is undermined and there is no reliable information to inform managers how well the health and safety risks are controlled [5]. The occupational health and safety standard OHSAS 18001 has gained considerable acceptance worldwide, and firms from diverse sectors and of varying sizes have implemented it. The OHSAS 18001 is applicable to any organisation that wishes to: • establish an SMS to eliminate or minimise risk to employees and other interested parties who may be exposed to Occupational Health Safety (OHS) risks associated with its activities; • implement, maintain and continually improve an SMS; • assure itself that the system complies with its stated OHS policy; • demonstrate compliance with this standard to others. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 41 editor@iaeme.com
An Innovative Process For The Qualification and Evaluation of occupational Risk Management Under The OHSAS 18001 Standard From an institutional perspective, OHSAS certification helps a firm signal legitimacy to major customers. Previous research showed that ISO 9001 and 14001 were both adopted partially for legitimating reasons, hence it is likely that OHSAS certification would have a similar effect [6]. OHSAS 18001 is interpreted as a signal of a firm’s commitment to health and safety management. Given the increasing demand for organizations to at least appear to meet expectations about health and safety, such pressure could be a powerful driver toward certification. If this perspective is correct, OHSAS certification improves the firm’s sales performance, since certification may meet customer safety requirements. However, if the only benefit from certification is the ability to signal, then all other components of operational performance would remain unchanged after certification. Based on this perspective, the process of certification would not alter production processes or the production system’s reliability. The primary benefit of certification would be increased sales once certification was granted [7]. modulo In Italy, the specific legislation on occupational health and safety is covered by the Safety Code at Work. The legislative decree no. 81 of 9 April 2008, entered into force on May 15, 2008 with the implementation of Art. 1 of law no. 123 of 3 August 2007 [8]. This decree covers all matters relating to occupational health and safety, and has the advantage of providing well- structured definitions that facilitate its analysis. Detailed descriptions of workplaces, specific norms, are schematized in such a way that the reader can find clear, complete and incisive answers [9]. The implementation of a Health and Safety Management System in the Workplace should be considered as a process of implementing the legal requirements imposed by the binding legislation on health and safety in the workplace as well as the continuous improvement of management processes and assessment of all the risks associated with the organization. In fact, in some small and medium-sized companies, it has been found that many elements of the system, included in the OHSAS 18001 scheme and implemented in the company, comply with the binding regulations on safety management [10]. The comparison of the requirements requested by OHSAS 18001 with the specifications of the legislative measures makes an overlapping between voluntary legislation and binding legislation possible. So from the comparison between OHSAS 18001: 07 and Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, no. 81 the implementation of the binding norms can be verified [11]. 2. ITALIAN COMPULSORY LEGISLATION AND THE OHSAS 18001:2007 STANDARD The legislative decree D. LGS 81/2008, Art. 26, governs and dictates the legal requirements sought by the service providers, both in the case of contracts, of works and of delivery, and when the execution of a work by a supplier takes place within temporary or mobile sites which the Safety Code devotes the entire Chapter IV to. The starting point of the analysis carried out in this paper is the above-mentioned legislation with contextual definition of the essential safety standards for outsourcing jobs to service providers. These requirements are in fact of a compulsory nature. The purpose of the standard is to establish a series of relationships and obligations for the persons involved in the contract to ensure the protection of workers' health and safety. Art. 26 is aimed at: • Verifying the professional technical competence of the company which the contract is entrusted to. The legislator therefore stipulates that the person who the work is entrusted to has all the legislative requirements envisaged in the decree. Therefore, the supplier is required to provide http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 42 editor@iaeme.com
Gambera Vanessa a statement declaring they have such requirements, a declaration that is relevant to the D.P.R. 445/2000 according to Art. 47; • informing employers and self-employed workers, then the contractor about the risks to the environment where they are to operate; • cooperating for the implementation of measures to prevent the risks of accidents during the work carried out under the contract; • coordinating prevention and protection measures in order to eliminate the risks of interference between the work of the various companies involved in the execution of the overall work; • developing a single document for all companies to assess the risks of interference. The risk of interference is a critical element to be considered. This can be defined as any risk arising from working, in a particular place, where other operators are already engaged in a work activity. With exception to the general obligations of information, cooperation and coordination which all operators are bound by, the obligations envisaged in order to eliminate the risks of interference are attributed to the employer who has the legal capacity of the workplace where the contract is being carried out. The latter is given the task of drafting the Document of Risk Assessment and Interference, a dynamic document that is drawn up to evaluate all the risks faced by the workers involved, managing the workers’ presence in the workplace In addition, an organization that decides to implement a Health and Safety Management System, which can be certified on the basis of the OHSAS 18001 standard, means that a priori it is considering the importance of legal requirements. In fact, the Health and Safety Management System itself implies respect for the laws on health and safety. Likewise, D. LGS. 81/08 at Art. 30 subsection 5 stipulates that the OHSAS 18001 standard fully reflects the organization and management model that complies with all legal obligations and their continuous improvement [12]. Hence, the Health and Safety Management System can be considered as a support tool for a company trying to comply with the law, since through the management of any activity that is carried out following specific procedures, the legal requirements to be respected can be considered from the start. Thus Art. 30 refers to an adopted and implemented model of organization and management, ensuring a corporate system for the fulfilment of all legal obligations related to: • compliance with the structural technical standards of the law relating to equipment, installations, workplaces, physical, chemical and biological agents; • the risk assessment activities and the prearrangement of consequent prevention and protection measures; • organizational activities, such as emergencies, first aid, procurement management, periodic safety meetings, consultations with workers' representatives; • supervisory activities with regard to the respect of the procedures and safety instructions of the workers; • health surveillance activities; • information and training activities for workers; • the acquisition of compulsory documents and certifications by law; • periodic testing of the application and effectiveness of the procedures adopted. The organizational model should therefore provide for an articulation of functions that ensure the technical expertise necessary for the verification, evaluation, management and control of risks as well as a suitable system to penalize non-compliance with the measures indicated in the model adopted. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 43 editor@iaeme.com
An Innovative Process For The Qualification and Evaluation of occupational Risk Management Under The OHSAS 18001 Standard 3. QUALIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF EUROPEAN AND NON- EUROPEAN SUPPLIERS Since the early 1990s, the protection of health and safety of workers has been one of the legislative priorities, not only in Italy but throughout Europe. In Europe, the line of conduct is represented by the Community directives specifically issued to protect the safety of workers. It was the goal of the European Union to try to harmonize the different legal systems of the various member states. The Community's choice was to set up Community directives on labour and resource management, the environment, worker protection, the right to healthcare and the protection of workers from accidents. These provisions were transposed in Italy through D. LGS. 626/94 and subsequently by D. LGS. 81/2008. Over the years, the most important standard-setting bodies in the world have issued numerous provisions concerning the creation and development of voluntary systems, freely adopted by businesses, in order to manage workers’ health and safety. Differences in the various legal systems are a critical issue for companies that often resort to the conclusion of a contract for the execution of work in the workplace, dealing with European and non-European suppliers. The management of this process within companies is divided into the following two phases: • Handling of the Documentary Part: Identified in direct request to suppliers of documents attesting the possession of essential requirements, i.e. safety standards in accordance with Art. 26 D.Lgs 81/08; • Handling of work on the basis of the contract stipulated, i.e. the management of the work in the strict sense. In the first phase, based on the different types of the contractual counterparty which the enterprise interfaces with, it is appropriate to ensure the procurement of documents attesting that the essential requirements have been met. Therefore, it is opportune to distinguish two types of suppliers: • a service provider with a registered office in Italy: in this case it is easy to collect documentation because the specific regulations indicate which documents are needed to carry out the verification of the Professional Technical Assurance, whereby the requesting party collects the necessary documentation. This can be standardized by using a procedure; • a service provider with a registered office abroad, or a European / non-European supplier. In this case, there are many problems arising from the absence of indications in D. LGS. 81/2008, or any other legislation, on the procedure to be adopted to protect the health and safety of workers when the contract is concluded with a European or non-European company. It is necessary to take account of: • different legislation which exists in the country where the supplier is based • non-equivalence of the documents that the firm must acquire for the control of the professional technical competence of the suppliers, as specified by Art. 26 of Legislative Decree 81/08; • diversity of language, in particular the difficulty in interpreting the mother tongue which the required documents are produced in to non-Italian suppliers. On the basis of the above-mentioned critical issues, it may be appropriate for companies to standardize a procurement process when the service provider is a European or extra-European company. Businesses supporting this process could use appropriate procedures and operating instructions. In fact, through a procedure, the applicant could handle the document acquisition phase by using an objective and simplified tool. In general, a procedure contains a set of actions to be accomplished to achieve a goal. For a company with a Management System, the procedures must necessarily be written and usually contain: http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 44 editor@iaeme.com
Gambera Vanessa • Purpose and scope; • Specific regulations; • The responsibilities of the business; • What needs to be done and who it should be done by; • Which materials and documents should be used; • The diffusion of the document; • Any attachments which reference is made to; • Check list for a procedure audit. 4. CASE STUDY: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OHSAS 18001 STANDARD IN A COMPANY OPERATING IN THE SICILIAN PRIMARY ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY The company studied in this paper belongs to the primary electronics industry, characterized by companies with high value added productions and advanced technologies. The industry is booming and boasts numerous excellencies in the field of science in Sicily thanks to research activities for the development of sensors and matrices of sensors based on micro and nano- structural materials for the detection of chemical compounds. In this context, the company's core business is characterized by the design and implementation of multi-fluid solutions to support customers in their technical development processes. The company's mission is to pursue total customer satisfaction, efficiency of operations, total reliability of supplies and the continuous improvement of principles of health, safety, quality and the environment. The management of the purchasing process, which includes the granting outsourcing contracts, qualified as service providers, is managed by the company on the basis of a specific procurement procedure. This procedure is part of the Management System documentation that the company has voluntarily adopted. It concerns the management of the purchasing process, or rather purchasing components, equipment, critical materials, utilities and third party services. The purchasing process must be analyzed with reference to the contract through which the firm exclusively entrusts work to suppliers who are in possession of requirements concerning compliance with legal requirements. Managing the purchase of service supplies is a critical process since the supplier, in order to win the assignation of the contract work, must pass an assessment and qualification process. This procedure expects suppliers to have certain essential requisites and additional requisites that the enterprise defines as prospective, or of a non-binding nature. The latter are requirements sought by the company for coding its suppliers, and any deficiency, unlike the essential ones, does not result in the automatic exclusion from the bidding process. The evaluation and qualification process followed by the company can be described in four steps: • Searching for suppliers on the market: suppliers are selected by considering the match between the subject of their business and the contract work to be awarded; • Verification of the possession of professional technical requirements, i.e. safety requirements, which are essential for the supplier in order to comply with D.LGS 81/08; • Elimination of suppliers who are not in possession of these requirements; • Search for suppliers who already have the essential requirements, of those requirements that the company believes to be prospective and which the company can use to encode them. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 45 editor@iaeme.com
An Innovative Process For The Qualification and Evaluation of occupational Risk Management Under The OHSAS 18001 Standard In order to facilitate the evaluation and qualification process, the company may implement the use of special checklists, shown below, which can be submitted to suppliers so that they can make a self-assessment about the possession of the essential requirements and of any such prospective ones. The following tables show two different types of checklist: Table 1 Checklist for verifying the possession of safety standards: essential requirements. Health and Safety in Safety Standard according to legislative decree no. 81 of 2008 the workplace Do you have a certificate of registration at the "CCIIAA" Chamber YES NO N/A of Commerce issued not earlier than six months beforehand? 1.1. If not, as the certificate is over six months after the date of issue, ensure the recovery for the delivery of the document no later than 10 days after receipt of this checklist 2. Do you own the "DURC" Single Document of Contribution Regularity not earlier than three months after its issue? 2.1. If it is not because the certificate is prior to the three months from the issuing date provide for recovery for the delivery of the document no later than 10 days after receipt of this checklist 3. Has the Risk Assessment Document referred to in art. 17 (1) (a) or self-certification referred to in art. 29, paragraph 5, of D. LGS 81/2008 been prepared? (This document must be drawn up by the employer or by the Legal Representative) 4. Do you have an Insurance Coverage Statement? 5. Has a substitute declaration of attestation of possession of the requirements of Professional Technical Suitability pursuant to art. 47 of D.P.R. 445/2000 and Art. 26 pt. 1 letter a) of D. LGS 81/08 been made? 5.1. Has a copy of an identity document of the person who is making the declaration been attached to the above mentioned document? (This document must be drawn up by the employer, or by Legal Representative) 6. Has a declaration been made not to be the subject of suspension or disqualification measures referred to in art. 14 of the D. LGS. 81/2008? 7. Has the declaration been made of conformity of the machines, equipment and works to be used to carry out the work? 8. Has a list of Individual Protection Devices been drawn up? 9. Has the number of staff involved in the work been indicated with a concurrent document attesting that the staff involved are under the company's dependency? Source: Personal Data It lists the requirements, or the safety standards that the service providers must have in the form of questions. http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 46 editor@iaeme.com
Gambera Vanessa Through this tool, the supplier will be able to self-evaluate and understand what the possible deficiencies are, or what requirements they are missing, so as to obtain them. The checklist tool is a good base both for the company and for the supplier: the company informs the supplier in advance what standards it is looking for, so as to simplify the collection of documents required for the evaluation and qualification of the supplier; and the latter can conduct a self-analysis so as to compensate for the lack of any requirements. Specifically, tab.1 shows the list of essential requirements sought by the supplier; instead, tab.2 shows the list of possible requirements, i.e. the standards that the supplier does not necessarily have but the company desires in the latter to complete the evaluation and qualification process: Table 2 Check list for checking the recommended standards for the evaluation of service providers, OHSAS 18001: 2007. Recommended Standards for Voluntary norms for Health, Quality, and implementing a Management System Environment 1. Do you have the OHSAS 18001: 2007 certification? (If yes, YES NO N/A indicate if the following procedures are present) 1.1 Is there a procedure for identifying hazards and for risk assessment? 1.2. Has a procedure been established for the identification of legal requirements? 1.3. Have roles, responsibilities and authorities been defined? 1.4. Is there a procedure for managing communication between the various levels and employees of the company? 1.5. Has there a procedure for managing the participation of workers in the continuous improvement of the principles of health and safety in the workplace been implemented? 1.6. Is there a procedure for handling documents and checking documents? 1.7. Is there a procedure for preparing for and responding to emergencies? 1.8. Is there a procedure for tracking and measuring performance? 1.9. Has a procedure been implemented for assessing periodic compliance with applicable legal requirements? 1:10. Is there a procedure for registering, investigating and analysing accidents? 1:11. Has a procedure been set up to deal with the real and potential non-conformities of the system? 1:12. Has a procedure been prepared for corrective and preventive actions to deal with non-compliance Source: personal data 5. RESULTS The procedure for the purchase of services which the company may adopt must include the following elements: • PURPOSE: Procedures for the procurement of work, services and supplies must be defined in order to comply with the health and safety regulations in the workplace. It will provide general guidelines, and detailed operating instructions for the following areas: • Temporary or mobile sites; • Contracts of bidding, of work or of administration; http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 47 editor@iaeme.com
An Innovative Process For The Qualification and Evaluation of occupational Risk Management Under The OHSAS 18001 Standard • FIELD OF APPLICATION: The procedure applies to the organization and in particular: • the affiliation of work within the corporate sites; • execution / relocation of work outside the corporate sites. Depending on the type of activity planned, it will fall into the scope of application of: • art. 26 of Legislative Decree 81/08, concerning contracts, works or administration of contracts; • chapter IV of the Legislative Decree 81/08, relating to temporary or mobile works. Achievement depends on both the role played in the contract and the type of business. • ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS: The terminology used in the drafting of the procedure is in line with that set out in the specific standards and integrated with further definitions. • SPECIFIC LEGISLATION: reference should be made to specific legislation regarding compulsory and technical regulations (D. LGS 81/2008 and D. LGS 106/2009) • LIABILITY: The responsibilities and tasks of the employees and departments involved must be identified. Therefore they must be identified: • Purchasing Office: selects suppliers, verifies technical-professional suitability, sets transaction costs, contracts and issues purchase /tender orders; • HSE Service: Supports departments involved in the various stages of the process; • Legal Office: verifies the regulatory compliance of the contracts entered into; • Sales Management: is the interface with the contractor until the contract is signed, it handles the documents according to the requirements of the rules and specific procedures. • Applicant /Person concerned department: manages the procurement of contracts of its own competence inside or outside the premises of the company, it ensures the correct application of the applicable law. The staff involved must fulfil the obligations of this procedure and the related ones. In the case of violations, sanctions will be imposed both by the Supervisory Bodies and by the Company. • PROCEDURE: This Procedure defines and activates the different operational paths required to fulfil the obligations of the company in the course of its activities, referring to works and services for contracts, work and administration contracts and for works included in Chapter IV. It will enable the understanding of: • the role of the firm in the contract; • the place of business; • the regulatory environment; • the contractual counterparty. When these four variables are defined, the applicant is directed to the operational instruction to be followed in managing the document procurement phase. In addition, different configurations and operating instructions exist in relation to the area of specific legislation and contractual counterparty. The legislative decree D. LSG. 81/2008 lays down the various provisions to be adopted in the case of works falling within Art. 26 or in Chapter IV. APPLICABLE OPERATING INSTRUCTION: The applicable Operating Instruction (OI) will vary depending on the different configurations identified, in the case under consideration, or when it is the company which commissions the work to a European or non-European supplier, in the absence of specific legislation about the modus operandi of the buyer's company that may make a request to foreign suppliers of equivalent documentation, i.e. documents that http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 48 editor@iaeme.com
Gambera Vanessa can attest the fulfilment of the requisites required by Italian law in the field of health and safety in the workplace. The company could then ask these suppliers to present these essential requirements by requiring a self-certification from the employer of the service provider to comply with the requirements requested under ART. 26 of D. LGS 81/2008. In addition, this process can be managed in such a way as to explain to the supplier the purpose of the decree, indicating that the procurement of documentation and self-certification by the supplier is intended to protect the health and safety of workers. It is therefore necessary that the declarations made by the contractor, both Italian or foreign, that the person making the declaration takes full responsibility, as envisaged in the decree D.P.R 445/2000 6. CONCLUSIONS The voluntary OHSAS 18001 standard for the protection of health and safety in the work place was developed worldwide with the aim of creating a management system built following the ISO standards already regulated and implemented much earlier in order to carefully handle every single process that has to do with the health and safety of a company's human resources which adopt it. This management system is geared towards the continuous improvement of all business processes. It aims at managing all resources in such a way as to reduce all the risks arising from the carrying out of work. In addition, the implementation of a Health and Safety Management System in Certified Workplaces OHSAS 18001, if implemented properly, allows compliance with legal requirements envisaged at the compulsory level of the existing regulations in the different states [13]. The advantage of adopting a Management System is the simplifying of the various business processes through the use of procedures and operating instructions that indicate how to approach the various activities to be performed in order to optimize all business processes [14]. Likewise, the compulsory legislation existing in Italy, D. LGS. 81/2008, is intended to protect workers while they are at work, in fact it is the same legislation that indicates the OHSSAS18001 certified SGSSL as an optimal tool for complying with the compulsory norms. In the field of health and safety management in the workplace, it is appropriate to create partnerships with service providers which are qualified according to the safety standards provided by D. LGS 81 / 2008 for the attribution of work contracts. To achieve this goal, a number of support tools have been described in this paper for the management of health and safety in the workplace, with the aim of directing companies towards a standardized pathway that will make the process of evaluation and qualification of service providers efficient. The optimization of the contract-handling process can be done through the application of a suitable procedure that makes it possible to identify a process to be followed to verify the service provider's professional technical suitability. In addition, the evaluation and qualification process can be made more efficient through the provision of a specific checklist, split into types of requisites sought by the suppliers, given in advance to the suppliers, in such a way as to enable them to carry out a preliminary self- assessment of the possession of such requirements and, if necessary, take steps to remedy any deficiencies found. These checklists are made up of some questions that are relevant to the requirements to be sought, and are simple and easy to read. Such checklists may also serve as a support in both the initial assessment and qualification of the suppliers, which is carried out in order to attribute to the latter the qualified supplier status, as well as in the stage of verifying professional technical suitability by virtue of the stipulation of a contract for the provision of a service. In particular, the management of contract work can be optimized by standardizing this process by supporting a procedure indicating what needs to be sought by suppliers in relation http://www.iaeme.com/IJM/index.as 49 editor@iaeme.com
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