If you supply engineering or any other services you should be aware of what is on the horizon.

CONTRACTOR PREQUALIFICATIONIf you are thinking this is just another management buzz word that has a number of compliance fish hooks, you are 75% right but on the other side of the ledger, it can have a number of advantages.

What is prequalification?In the yester years of ISO 9001 this was called supplier appraisal, in this new age of the 2015 health and safety legislation, it’s called pre-qualification. This is a relatively new term to the NZ health and safety vocabulary. If you are a contractor suppling or intending to supply your services to central or local government, government departments, port companies, Electrical suppliers and other large industry players, I suggest you take note.

Why, if you are not on board with it, this well be a something that could prevent your business from trading with these organisations and other businesses in the very near future.

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