Manage subcontractors, verify compliance, and maintain a live evacuation list across your sites — without the paperwork. Built for New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
Construction sites are high-risk environments with constantly changing workforces — multiple subcontractors, labour hire workers, and delivery personnel arriving and leaving throughout the day. Paper sign-in books don't cut it.
Multiple trades on site simultaneously, with different crews arriving at different times. Tracking who's actually on site at any moment is a full-time job without a system.
Subcontractors who haven't completed site inductions create liability. Paper systems can't enforce this — someone has to manually check, and that check often doesn't happen.
In an emergency, knowing exactly who is on site is critical. A paper sign-in book left in the site office — or never filled in — is not a reliable evacuation list.
As principal contractor, you have a legal duty to manage risks to everyone on your site. Demonstrating that duty requires records — which paper systems make difficult to produce.
Under the HSWA 2015, construction businesses operating as principal contractors have specific duties around managing overlapping work. This includes ensuring all workers — including subcontractors — have received site-specific inductions, hold required certifications, and are accounted for in an emergency. SiteKey creates a verifiable, time-stamped record of site access and compliance status that supports these obligations. WorkSafe New Zealand provides guidance on principal contractor responsibilities.
SiteKey includes the tools construction site managers actually use — not the features that look good in a sales demo.
No IT project. No lengthy onboarding. Most construction customers are live within two to three days.
Tell us about your site, your trades, and your compliance requirements. We configure SiteKey to match — compliance gates, sign-out rules, and admin access.
Import your contractor list or let them self-register. Each person gets a QR pass by email. Pre-registration can be done before a trade even starts on site.
Workers scan in and out. Compliance is checked automatically. Your evacuation list is always current. You get on with running the job.
"We needed something that actually worked on a building site — not an office lobby system that cost a fortune and needed an IT team to set up. SiteKey was running within a couple of days."Wayne Jameson, Wayne Jameson Builders
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, principal contractors have a duty to manage the health and safety of everyone on site — including subcontractors, labour hire workers, and visitors. Maintaining accurate site access records and a current evacuation list is a core part of meeting that duty. Site access management software automates this process, replacing unreliable paper sign-in books with a real-time digital record.
SiteKey includes a compliance gate that checks whether each person has met your requirements before allowing them to check in. For construction sites, this can include completing a site induction, holding a current Site Safe certificate, or finishing required training modules. Subcontractors who don't meet the criteria are flagged — they cannot check in until the requirement is met. This removes the manual chasing that typically falls to site managers.
SiteKey maintains a live list of everyone currently checked in. In an emergency, your site manager opens the evacuation list on any phone or tablet — it shows every person on site at that moment, with their name, company, and check-in time. The list can also be printed at the start of each shift as a backup. This replaces paper sign-in sheets that are frequently incomplete or left inside the site office during an evacuation.
Yes. SiteKey is designed for businesses running multiple sites. Each site has its own QR codes, occupancy list, and compliance configuration. Subcontractors registered in your system can be authorised across multiple sites — they use the same QR pass at any site they're cleared for.
If your compliance gate is set to require induction completion, a subcontractor who hasn't done it is flagged as non-compliant at check-in. SiteKey displays a clear message explaining what's missing — they cannot proceed until the requirement is met. This removes the problem of people signing in on paper without anyone verifying their status.
SiteKey is a flat monthly fee — no per-user charges, no per-scan costs. The more people use it, the better value it becomes. Pricing starts from $30/month. See full pricing on the SiteKey homepage.
Tell us about your building site and we'll have SiteKey configured and running within a few days.
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