HSE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR CONTRACTORS INVITED TO BID

Supplier/Contractor Name: PR Number & Date

Number of employees of each trade

Managers:
Supervisor:
Engineer:
HSE Staff:
Office Staff:
QA/QC Staff:
Works at Site:

No. Question Response

How will your company manage execution of this particular contract in such ways
1 to meet our high HSE performance and behavior expectations of your staff, and
that of your Sub-Contractors?
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What will be the roles and responsibilities of your Line Supervisors (in particular),
2 your Line Managers, and your HSE Organization (HSE
Managers/Supervisors/Officers) in this process?

How has your staff been (and/or how will your staff be) trained to reach the
desired levels of HSE-related skills and competency in their roles and
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responsibilities – all levels (Helpers up to Managers)? – same question applies to
the staff of your Sub-Contractors.

How will you ensure that the appropriate members of your staff (and the staff of
your Sub-Contractors) will become familiar with, and sufficiently knowledgeable
on, Emirates Steel ‘Safe Control of Work’ processes and procedures, for instance:
4 Permit to Work, Job Safety Analyses (JSAs), Job Method Statements (JMSs),
Confined Space Entry, Hot Work, Working at Height, Excavations, Lifting and
Rigging, PPE, Electrical Safety, etc.

How will you ensure that the appropriate members of your staff (and the staff of
5 your Sub-Contractors) will be adequately trained/instructed on these procedures,
for them to be able to exercise their related roles and responsibilities?

How will you ensure that all your staff (and the staff of your Sub-Contractors)
assigned to the execution of this work/service will be fully informed about the
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Emirates Steel Life Saving Rules and the potential consequences of non-
compliance? – and that their understanding of these rules has been validated?

What risk mitigation processes will you deploy (integral with those of Emirates
7 Steel) to either eliminate the identified risks and hazards related to the Scope of
Work, or at least reduce these risks to a minimal/manageable level?

What HSE performance management processes will you use for the execution of
this work/service (integral with those of Emirates Steel)? And to what extent? –
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e.g. Safety Observations, HSE Inspections, HSE Audits, Incident Investigations,
Close-out of Arising Corrective Actions, etc.

What meeting structure and functionality will you deploy related to HSE
9 performance monitoring and improvement (integral with that of Emirates Steel),
related to this Scope of Work?

What HSE performance ‘Reward and Recognition’ processes will you use, related
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to this Scope of Work?

What HSE-related KPIs will you use, and how will you use them, to support your
11 HSE performance management?
 How do you plan to meet any specific staffing requirements detailed in the
Emirates Steel Scope of Work (related to, for instance, specific skills and
12 competencies, experience of similar industries, team stability, supervisor-and-
safety-officer to workforce ratios, etc.)?

How do you plan to communicate important HSE-related information to your work

13 team(s) when executing this work/service, both task-specific and on a daily and/or
shift basis?

How do you plan to satisfactorily manage any language/literacy

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challenges/limitations your staff (and your Sub-Contractor staff) may have?

How do you manage the health and welfare of your staff (24/7 in the case of staff
15 living away from home), with regard to the expectations detailed in the Contractor
HSE Requirements?

16 What HSE-related continuous performance improvement programs does your

company have in place?

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