Our Expectations for Suppliers and Contractors

We recognise that our suppliers and contractors are engaged in a wide range of activities, differ considerably in size and have varying experience in safety, health and environmental management. AEA is therefore not prescriptive in its requirements although we do expect, as a minimum, that our suppliers:

• Understand their own health and safety issues and environmental impacts and the choices available to them to minimise these impacts;
• Understand AEA's health and safety issues and environmental impacts (see our Safety, Health and Environmental Report) and be proactive in helping us to improve our safety, health and environmental performance;
• Comply with relevant safety, health and environmental legislation

For contractors working at our sites or working on our customers' sites, we require, in addition, compliance with relevant health & safety instructions which will be provided for each contract by the appointed contract supervising officer.  In particular, we require that incidents are reported when working on AEA sites or those of our clients that involve harm to people, equipment or the environment.

Incidents should be reported:

• In the first instance, to the AEA contract officer

The report should include the following information:

• Name of persons involved
• Contact details
• Date
• Location of incident
• Nature of incident
• Immediate action taken
• Any follow up action taken

The Useful Health & Safety Links page suggests resources for help and advice on improving safety, health and environmental performance.

Please also see AEA's Safety, Health and Environmental Information (pdf) for Contractors and Suppliers to AEA group. 

AEA has minimum expectations relating to the safety, health and environmental performance of our suppliers. These are:

• Legal compliance with all applicable safety, health and environmental legislation
• Use of competent and trained staff
• Appropriate risk management measures in place.