Your needs for temporary and contract safety roles are typically driven by one or a combination of factors related to:
| → Seasonality or project-based work | → Skills gaps in local talent pools |
| → Labor shortages | → Insufficient budget |
| → On-site knowledge gaps | → Poor audit performance |
Whether you lack the necessity or budget to maintain full-time employees or can’t find the personnel qualified for your particular regulatory environment, you face an ongoing dilemma to fill roles that are critical to meet compliance requirements and your own standards for protecting employees.
That’s when a safety staffing agency can help.
One option to fill gaps in safety personnel is outsourcing the roles through a safety staffing company because they can offer:
| → Cost-effectiveness | → Specialization for specific roles |
| → Quick compliance | → Flexibility |
A specialized safety staffing agency should provide qualified, pre-screened safety professionals with industry-specific expertise. Successful agencies ensure fast placements and regulatory compliance by offering flexible, cost-effective solutions for temporary or long-term needs.
Ideally, a safety staffing agency reduces recruitment costs, downtime, and mitigates risks by providing experienced candidates who allow your other employees to focus on their core operations.
Using a staffing agency for Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) roles can offer the aforementioned benefits, but there are also shortcomings to safety staffing if you hire from the wrong company. Because it can be a high-turnover business, an unspecialized or unqualified staffing agency may run into common drawbacks such as:
High-volume staffing agencies often recruit and cycle warm bodies, which may not deliver the level of expertise or support you expect and lead to compliance issues.
Many staffing agencies provide temporary or contract workers who approach their roles as transitory and will subsequently or unexpectedly leave for anything they deem better.
If you jump around to many different safety staffing companies, they’ll lack intimate knowledge of your specific operations, culture, and challenges, limiting their ability to tailor services.
Staffing companies that aren’t exclusive to your needs may not always have access to the precise mix of skills and experience for specialized EHS roles. There’s also the risk that externally sourced candidates won’t fully integrate with your existing culture, affecting teamwork and collaboration.
Strategically employing outsourced safety staffing provides ROI, but approaching it the wrong way can actually lead to higher long-term costs through service fees, increased training requirements, or potential inefficiencies.
Here’s how SITEX’s approach helps you overcome any pitfalls associated with safety staffing:
We’re not a revolving door of available workers. Our lack of turnover builds institutional knowledge of our clients and the subject matter. You’re receiving more than a warm body from SITEX.
SITEX team members are experts in the field, not simply hired labor who were offered a quick training class. We know it’s our name on the line also – so we wouldn’t expect you to work with anyone we wouldn’t.
We don’t just send you anyone. We’ll listen to understand exactly what you need, then provide resumes of applicable candidates. Together, we’ll get you the right people in the right places.
Our obligations don’t end when the employee reaches your worksite. All SITEX team members are either CSP or CIH certified or have consistent communication with a certified expert who oversees their efforts and is available for consultation upon any issues or concerns.
This ensures that every job or project is executed and supervised by someone with the highest level of certification in the industry. As we like to say, when you hire SITEX, you get all of us.
Long-term partnerships produce the best results. Companies can deplete their available talent pool by refusing to acclimate new workers and sticking with only older experienced ones. By developing and maintaining a library of knowledge about your company, any new hires from SITEX start with the advantage of familiarity with your company, alleviating the potential talent drain.
SITEX can resolve your safety personnel needs as a partner that provides the best benefits of outsourcing while filling common gaps in safety staffing.
If you routinely need safety personnel for immediate jobs, long-term projects, turnarounds or shutdowns, talk to us about developing a long-term solution that ensures you get the right people into the right places, on time and every time.
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