Exploring Health and Safety Contractor Management

Release version: Australia

Updated March 12, 2026

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Summary of Exploring Health and Safety Contractor Management

The Health and Safety Contractor Management application enables organizations to verify contractor workers' certifications, skills, and training completion before they arrive onsite, ensuring safe job performance. It facilitates prequalification, document management, and access control for contractors, supporting overall workplace safety.

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Key Features

Contractor and Worker Management: Safety contractor coordinators add and maintain records of contractor companies and their workers, including expertise and contact details, via the Health and Safety Workspace.
Prequalification Process: Employees and line managers can initiate the health and safety prequalification of contractors through the Employee Center.
Task Assignment and Completion: Coordinators assign prerequisite training and documentation tasks to contractor workers, who receive notifications and complete these tasks before site access is granted.
Document Gathering: The system collects necessary safety documents from contractor companies and workers to confirm compliance.
Site Access Control: Access to the site is granted only after contractors fulfill all safety prerequisites, and coordinators maintain real-time awareness of who is onsite.
Incident Management: Contractor workers can be linked to safety incidents or observations for accountability and follow-up.

Who Uses It

Safety Contractor Coordinator: Manages contractors, verifies training and documents, tracks onsite personnel, and controls site access.
Employee and Line Manager: Initiate contractor prequalification and ensure proper contractor oversight.
Contractor Worker: Completes assigned safety tasks and uploads required documentation as part of the compliance process.

Key Benefits

Ensures contractors are properly qualified and compliant with health and safety requirements before entering the site.
Improves visibility and tracking of contractor presence and compliance status onsite.
Streamlines communication and task management between coordinators and contractors.
Supports incident accountability by associating contractor workers with safety incidents or observations.

Learn more about Health and Safety Contractor Management and review the benefits it can provide for different users in your organization.

Health and Safety Contractor Management overview

With this application, you can confirm that contractor workers have relevant certificates and skills and have completed the required trainings before they arrive at the site so that they can perform their job safely.

Health and Safety Contractor Management users

Table 1. Users
User	Description
Safety contractor coordinator	Adds contractor companies and its workers from the Health and Safety Workspace. Manages contractor workers for their health and safety and knows who is on site at all times. The contractor coordinator confirms that contractor workers have relevant certificates and skills and have completed the required trainings before granting them access to the site.
Employee and Line manager	Adds contractor companies from the Employee Center to initiate their health and safety pre-qualification process.
Contractor worker	Completes assigned tasks and upload documents as mentioned in the email notification.

Health and Safety Contractor Management workflow

Safety contractor coordinator adds and keeps track of all contractor companies' details in the Health and Safety Workspace. They also list all the contractor workers including their areas of expertise and contact details.
Safety contractor coordinator assigns tasks to contractor workers to confirm that they’re up to date on prerequisite training and document uploads before they come on site.
Contractor workers receive an email for the assigned tasks and mark them complete.
When the prerequisite tasks have been completed by the contractor workers, the contractor coordinator grants them access for the site.

Health and Safety Contractor Management benefits

Table 2. Key features of Health and Safety Contractor Management and their benefits
Benefit	Feature	Users
Prequalify contractor companies and their workers to keep track of their health and safety.	Add contractor company and worker	Safety contractor coordinator Line manager
Confirm prerequisite training and document uploads for contractor workers before they come on site.	Task assignment for contractors	Safety contractor coordinator
Gather prerequisite documents form the contractor company and its workers.	Contractor documents	Safety contractor coordinator
Track all contractor workers and know who is on site at all times.	Site access	Safety contractor coordinator
Add contractor worker on incident and observation.	People involved in a safety incident	Line manager Safety agent

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To learn more about configuring and using Health and Safety Contractor Management, see:

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