Best Practices

To help protect staffing firms from legal risk and help better serve their clients and employees, ASA has developed suggested best practices in the areas of employee safety, operations of nurse staffing firm, and vendor management systems and member service providers. These best practices can be used as a guide and can be modified to meet the unique needs of individual staffing firms.

Employee Safety Best Practices and Operating Information
The Employee Safety Best Practices and Operating Information address best practices in staffing firms' general operations and management of workplace incidents. These best practices pertain to various sectors of the staffing industry and take into consideration interaction with internal and temporary employees as well as clients, secondary suppliers, vendor management services providers and managed services providers.

Nurse Staffing Firm Best Practices and Operations Information
The Nurse Staffing Firm Best Practices and Operations Information address organization, capitalization, and operations; compliance with laws and regulations; treatment of applicants and employees; determination of applicant experience and qualifications; communication with employees; complaint, grievance, and incident management; advertising; and client relations for travel and per diem nurses.

Vendor Management Systems and Member Service Provider Best Practices
The best practices for VMS and MSP address a broad range of topics dealing with implementation, order and requisition management, candidate submittal, financial management, and staffing firm engagement.

Contact
Stephen Dwyer
General Counsel
703-253-2037
sdwyer@americanstaffing.net