SiteKey keeps an accurate record of everyone who comes onto your property, including seasonal workers, contractors, AsureQuality auditors and biosecurity inspectors. Nobody has to fill in a clipboard or paper form.
On a farm or orchard you deal with seasonal workers, contractors, auditors and biosecurity officers, often across several entry points and with little office support. That is hard to keep on top of with paper.
Peak season brings large numbers of seasonal workers, often with high turnover. Without a system it is hard to know who is on the property at any moment and whether each of them has had a site induction.
A visitor who comes onto the farm unregistered, with no biosecurity declaration, is a biosecurity risk. Paper forms get lost, left half done or never filled in. Digital records are kept permanently and can be searched.
Many farms have more than one way in, which makes a single sign-in point hard to run. You can put SiteKey QR codes at any gate or entry point on the property.
Vets, agronomists, equipment technicians and biosecurity officers all need to be recorded. A paper visitor book is rarely complete enough for an auditor and has no place for biosecurity declarations.
Under HSWA 2015, farms operating as PCBUs (persons conducting a business or undertaking) have a duty to ensure the health and safety of all workers on their property, including seasonal workers, contractors and volunteers. Farms must give workers an induction, cover the hazards relevant to their work, and be able to account for them in an emergency. SiteKey is a low-cost way to keep a verifiable record of everyone on your property without adding to the admin. WorkSafe New Zealand has guidance on primary sector PCBU obligations.
SiteKey is easy to set up, and seasonal workers, contractors and visitors can use it without any training.
You don't need an IT team. Most farm customers are live within two to three days.
Tell us about your farm, your entry points and your biosecurity requirements, and we set up the biosecurity declarations, induction requirements and admin access to suit.
Import your contractor list or let them self-register. Each person gets a QR pass by email and can check in with it at any of your entry points.
New visitors and seasonal workers register themselves when they arrive. SiteKey records their details and biosecurity declarations digitally, ready for an audit.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA), farms operating as PCBUs have a duty to ensure the health and safety of all workers and visitors on their property, including seasonal workers, contractors and service visitors. Keeping accurate records of who is on your property is part of meeting that duty, for emergency management and for showing compliance during an audit. Many farms also have biosecurity obligations that require visitor records to be kept.
Yes. You can add a biosecurity declaration step to the visitor or contractor sign-in. Visitors are asked to confirm their recent movements, whether they have visited other farms, and any other biosecurity questions you specify. Their answers are saved digitally with the visit record, and you can show that trail to MPI or AsureQuality inspectors.
SiteKey is a web-based system that works on any internet-connected device. On rural properties with limited connectivity it runs on mobile data, and most sign-in interactions use only a small amount of data. QR passes can be pre-loaded on devices, and check-in uses very little data. Talk to us about your connectivity during onboarding and we will set the system up to suit your property.
Yes. Visitors can self-register on a shared tablet or device at your entry point or office. Seasonal workers without a smartphone sign in on the shared device, entering their details and completing any required declarations when they arrive. You can also print QR passes for workers, who then check in with a QR scanner at your gate and don't need their own device.
SiteKey keeps a complete, time-stamped log of every visitor, contractor and worker who has entered your property. You can export it from the admin dashboard at any time. During an MPI or AsureQuality audit you can produce visitor records and biosecurity declarations for any date range within minutes.
SiteKey is a flat monthly fee, with no per-user charges and no per-scan costs. Pricing is $30 a month for an office, $50 a month for a worksite, and $10 a month for each additional site. There are no extra costs in peak season when visitor numbers are high. See full pricing on the SiteKey homepage.
Tell us about your property and we'll have SiteKey set up for you before peak season.
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