What safety measures do you use for staffing services?

1 Assess your needs

Before you hire any staffing service, you need to assess your own needs and expectations. What kind of skills, experience, and certifications do you require for the positions you want to fill? What are the working conditions, hazards, and safety protocols in your workplace? How will you communicate and coordinate with the staffing service and the workers they provide? By clarifying your needs, you can avoid mismatched, unprepared, or unsuitable workers.

3 Provide orientation and training

Even if the staffing service provides some orientation and training to the workers they send you, you still need to provide your own orientation and training to ensure that they are familiar with your workplace, your expectations, and your safety rules. You need to inform them about the tasks, duties, and responsibilities they will perform, the equipment, tools, and materials they will use, and the potential risks, hazards, and emergency situations they may encounter. You also need to provide them with the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) and instruct them on how to use it properly.

4 Monitor and supervise

Once you have the workers on site, you need to monitor and supervise their performance and safety. You need to assign a supervisor or a mentor who can guide, support, and evaluate the workers. You also need to check their attendance, productivity, and quality of work regularly. You need to provide feedback, recognition, and correction as needed. You also need to report any incidents, injuries, or issues to the staffing service and document them accordingly.

6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?