An SSSP is the document that says how health and safety will be managed on one job, on one site. The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 does not use the term. Main contractors ask for one anyway, because it is how the construction industry shows the duties in the Act have been worked through for that job.
Site Safe New Zealand, whose packs most SSSPs in this country are built from, puts it this way: main contractors and subcontractors develop an SSSP to outline how health and safety will be managed on a job. Read from sitesafe.org.nz on 20 September 2026.
The plan records the basic actions the companies and the people on the job will follow. Site Safe lists five:
A company health and safety manual does not do this job. The plan is written for the site, with that site’s hazards, that site’s emergency arrangements, and the people who will actually be on it.
Site Safe publishes three packs. Which one you fill in depends on your position on the job.
| Your position | Pack | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Main contractor, PCBU 1 | Whero, red | You work under your own agreement with the client, run your own health and safety systems, and provide evidence of your own due diligence. |
| Directly contracted to the main contractor | Kākāriki, green | You work under the main contractor’s agreement and their health and safety systems, and give them evidence of your due diligence. |
| Working alongside the main contractor | Kōwhai, yellow | You run your own health and safety systems and also abide by the main contractor’s. |
Read from sitesafe.org.nz on 20 September 2026.
An SSSP is a job registration form, an agreement or project plan, and a set of registers that stay live for the length of the job. The Site Safe packs number them:
| Form | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Job registration | The job, the site and the parties |
| Form 1 | The agreement, or the project plan if you are the main contractor |
| Form 2 | Site hazard and risk register |
| Form 3 | Hazardous products and substances inventory |
| Form 4 | Training and qualification register |
| Form 5 | Site inspection checklist |
| Form 6 | Toolbox talk minutes |
| Form 7 | Site emergency response plan |
| Form 8 | Incident and injury register |
| Form 9 | Incident investigation and report |
The first two are written once. The rest are registers that have to stay current for the length of the job.
The plan is signed at the start of the job and filed. The hazard register, the training records and the toolbox talk minutes then live in a folder, a phone and a shared drive. When the principal or WorkSafe asks for the plan, what comes back is a signed cover and a set of registers with gaps in them.
SiteKey does not write your SSSP. It holds the plan against the site it belongs to and keeps the live record behind five of the registers the plan promises.
| SSSP form | What SiteKey holds |
|---|---|
| Form 2, site hazard and risk register | Hazards and risks nominated by your company, shown in the site induction and again at sign in |
| Form 4, training and qualification register | Training and certification status per person with expiry dates, and a sign in blocked when one lapses. Contractor compliance |
| Form 5, site inspection checklist | Site walk records with findings, photos and assigned actions |
| Form 6, toolbox talk minutes | Topic, key points and attendance taken from the sign in |
| Forms 8 and 9, incident registers | Incident, accident and near miss reports filed from the scene |
The plan itself, the emergency response arrangements, and the JSAs for the individual tasks sit against the site, so the people working under them can open them on a phone at the work face.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 does not name a site specific safety plan. The duties it does set, to identify and manage risk, to train and supervise, and to plan for emergencies, are what the plan records. Main contractors commonly make an SSSP a condition of the contract, so on most sites you cannot start work without one.
The SSSP covers the whole job on the whole site. A JSA covers one task, broken into its steps, with the hazards and controls for each step. A job usually has one SSSP and many JSAs.
The main contractor writes the project plan for the site. Each subcontractor fills in the pack for their own position on the job, which is where their own hazards, training records and agreement go.
The plan and its registers form part of the health and safety record for the job. The periods that apply come from the other records the plan contains, and we set those out in the guide to how long to keep site records.
Yes. Site Safe states that the forms in its packs can be filled electronically or printed and completed by hand. Read from sitesafe.org.nz on 20 September 2026.
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