CheckSafe answers whether a person is competent. SiteKey answers whether they are allowed through the gate right now. The two overlap on training records and part ways after that. Read from both websites on 20 September 2026.
CheckSafe describes itself as competency and training management software for New Zealand high risk industries. The column below is taken from their own website.
| Area | CheckSafe | SiteKey |
|---|---|---|
| What it is built around | Competency, training and assessments in one place, with gaps visible before they become problems | Site access, and the records that come out of sign in |
| Competency | Competency management, verification of competency, assessment in the field from a mobile app | Training records with expiry shown on the Training screen |
| Training records | Training management software, certificate upload, assessments due | Course completions read from a training account, with a gate that blocks sign in when they are not current |
| Contractors | Contractor and subcontractor compliance | Contractor pre-registration and automated pre-qualification on the WorkSafe WKS-14 form |
| Slicing the view | By site, team, role or contractor | By site and by person on the Training screen |
| Sign in and sign out on site | Their website does not describe it | QR pass scanned on the person's own phone, kiosk, GPS geofencing |
| Who is on site now | Their website does not describe it | Live evacuation list and automatic sign out |
| Published price | None. There is no pricing page on their site | $30 a month an office, $50 a worksite, $10 each additional site, excluding GST |
Read from checksafe.co.nz and sitekey.nz on 20 September 2026.
That is the question CheckSafe is built to answer. Their site talks about a licence on file not meaning someone is competent today, and about assessing and verifying competency on site from a mobile app.
That is the question SiteKey is built to answer. The compliance gate reads course completions and blocks the sign in when they are not current, and the on site list shows who is inside the fence.
Competency assessment in one system and the gate in another is a reasonable split, especially in rail and civil where a verification of competency is its own process. Ask both of us how they would sit together.
CheckSafe publishes verification of competency, field assessment from a mobile app, and a view of overall competency and open assessments that can be sliced by site, team, role or contractor. SiteKey has none of that. It reads whether a course is complete and current, and stops there.
A rail or civil operation that has to prove a person was assessed against a standard, not only that they finished a course, is looking at a competency system.
Read on 20 September 2026 from a New Zealand connection. CheckSafe is a separate company and its name belongs to it. This page is written by Capability Solutions, which builds SiteKey, so read it as one side's account and check the other website yourself. Nothing here is taken from a quote, a demo or any private material. SiteKey prices exclude GST.
Their website has no pricing page and no rate card on it, read on 20 September 2026, so a price has to come from them directly. SiteKey publishes its rate: $30 a month for an office, $50 a month for a worksite and $10 a month for each site after that, excluding GST.
The question each one answers. CheckSafe is competency and training management, with verification of competency and field assessment from a mobile app. SiteKey is site access, with QR sign in on the person's own phone, a compliance gate that blocks a sign in when training is not current, a live on site list and the daily safety records that come out of sign in.
Their website does not describe sign in or sign out on site, or a live list of who is on site. Ask them directly, because a website does not always list everything a product does.
No. SiteKey reads whether a course is complete and whether it is still current, and blocks a sign in when it is not. It does not assess a person against a competency standard and it does not run a verification of competency.
No. SiteKey is built and run by Capability Solutions in Hamilton. CheckSafe is a separate company and its name belongs to it. Everything on this page comes from each company's own published website, read on 20 September 2026.
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