How can you achieve effective BAC?

BAC should be approached as a continuous process geared towards mainstreaming health and safety at every stage of the project, starting from when the need to outsource work or services is identified and ending with the conclusion of the subcontracting relationship, and which should result in tangible, applicable and effective measures to help enhance health and safety conditions in concurrent work.

This involves putting in place appropriate coordination mechanisms fostering flexible and continuous communication and exchange of information between the parties and ensuring each of them (incumbent and concurrent companies) proactively and responsibly undertake their assigned tasks at each stage. Health and safety in the concurrence situation is a matter for all parties involved as the shortcomings or disengagement of one party can have an impact on the others.

To help bring about a paradigm shift towards business activity coordination focused on the result and not only on demonstrating legal compliance, Mutua Universal has a short best practice guide which outlines the stages of the process, the role to be played by the incumbent company, the concurrent companies and the main company when there is one, coupled with the flows of information between them.