Offlay

The subcontractors themselves outsource work to others in a 'chain of subcontractors' in order further to offlay risks.

That seemed to offlay the sense of "the bastards who did this". Quite often there seemed to me to be a sense of failure to protect one's own from the bastards.

[…] that you are going to control people's lives to the extent that they are able and willing to incur carbon cost which they will then have to offlay.