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Outsourcing is the transferring of internal business functions, plus any associated assets, to an external supplier or service provider who offers a defined service for a specified period of time, at an agreed price.

 

OHS is short for Occupational Health and Safety. Health is mainly concerned with the health of employees at their workplace but increasingly also outside the workplace. Safety is concerned with the safety at work and outside work and deals primarily with the risk, awareness and avoidance of accidents.

 

Premiro 's outsourcing solution offers built in flexibility in four areas:

We are flexible enough to match needs in the short term and adjust further if your business grows or declines.

 

4. Do you have the OHS skills that we need now and in the future?

As an outsourcing service provider specialising in OHS we definitely have the OHS skills. OHS is what we do. If we do not have the skills we will partner with other companies to acquire these skills. Our training programme ensures our employees are always up-to-date with the latest OHS knowledge.

 

We believe in developing a partnership concept. The partnership is an arrangement where the focus is as much on continuous improvements as on pure cost savings. We will not only look at cost savings regardless of the level of service.

 

Again,Premiro believes in developing a partnership concept. The partnership is a value added arrangement where the focus is as much on continuous service level improvements as on pure cost savings.

 

During the early stages of an outsourcing agreement staff will naturally have doubts about their future careers, future opportunities etc. As soon as an outsourcing agreement is announced special attention will be paid to all staff that might be affected to avoid unnecessary confusion. Information workshops and meetings will be held so everybody has the chance to express his or her views. With our employees being in a critical role we have to focus on training well-qualified and motivated employees. This is the most critical success factor for us.

 

You only “lose” the know-how that is transferred, but your managers will continue to have access to the skills of its former employees. We suggests frequent meetings throughout the contract to address this issue. It is an important responsibility at all times to fully understand and review all the processes and know-how outsourced.

 

The nature of some OHS processes command a personal presence on your site. You simply cannot do this work elsewhere. Other processes can benefit from being moved elsewhere. This decision will depend on employees preferences, cost savings or service improvements.

 

This will vary according to the needs of our clients, but our initial approach is to keep all of the current staff and only bring in our own staff if required. Once the transition is completed projects will be set up to look at potential improvements and cost savings.  

 

During and after the transitionwe will look at current systems and determine their efficiency. Depending on the output of the analysis a joint decision will be made what to do with the current systems.

 

The best solution is to built an exit strategy – “get-out-clause” - into the contract.

 

A transition will be a change to the employees, systems and work processes and this carries with it certain risks. The transfer will also carry risks of disruption to services. Premiro and the client must carry out their own risk assessment studies. The risks are to be part of the transition plan.

 

This is a critical question in any outsourcing agreement. In most cases the loss of confidential information is not due to outsourcing or systems with poor security, but to employees wanting to harm their employer. Employees you can trust is the best way of mitigating this risk.