Who it's for
Built for both sides of the gate.
Assured Contractors is used by two kinds of organisation: clients (principal contractors and site owners who run sites and hire contractors), who pay a subscription, and the contractors who work for them, who join free on every plan.
Inside a client, the same record serves the health and safety team, site managers, procurement and IT, each with their own role and their own view.
Six ways in
Which role are you?
Pick the page that sounds like your job. Each one sets out the problems you're likely dealing with, what changes, and a worked example.
Principal contractors & site owners
Assured Contractors gives principal contractors and site owners one workspace to prequalify contractors, check every worker's cards, plan permits and bookings, and decide who comes through the gate. Your contractors join free, so there's no Assured Contractors fee for them to build into their price.
- Nothing for contractors to pass on
- Requirements you set
- A status that explains itself
Contractors
Assured Contractors is free for contractors, whichever client you connect to and whatever plan that client is on: no joining fee, no annual fee, and no fee per client or per worker. You keep one company profile, and every client you connect to sees the current version.
- Nothing to add to your prices
- One profile for every client
- Your own workspace
Health & safety teams
Assured Contractors gives health and safety teams one record of contractor evidence, worker competence, permits to work, incidents, inspections, COSHH and policies, each linked to the company, the people and the site involved, with an audit log of every action.
- Permits with a full lifecycle
- Incidents built around RIDDOR
- Inspections that create findings
Site & operations managers
Assured Contractors gives site and operations managers a live picture of their site: who's ready to work, who's through the gate, which permits are live, what's booked on the crane and hoist, and who to account for at muster.
- Gate mode
- Bookings that can't clash
- Operators' cards checked
Procurement
Assured Contractors lets procurement teams prequalify contractors against their own requirements (documents, insurance, accreditations and Companies House status) and see each supplier's current status, with the reasons, at any time.
- Requirement sets and risk tiers
- Companies House lookup and monitoring
- Expiry tracking that reaches the supplier
IT & security
Assured Contractors is a web application: nothing to install, it runs in current browsers on computers, phones and tablets, with named roles, an audit log of every action, separate client workspaces and CSV and PDF exports.
- Named roles
- An audit log of every action
- Separate workspaces
Two sides of the gate
How do clients and contractors share one record?
Clients run the sites and decide what's required. Contractors do the work and keep their own profile current. Assured Contractors connects the two, so the same documents and cards aren't sent again for every client.
Sets the rules and runs the site
- Sends its contractors its company code or invite link
- Sets requirement sets: what each kind of work and risk tier needs
- Reviews contractors' documents and cards on its own terms
- Plans jobs, permits to work and crane, hoist and delivery bookings
- Runs the gate, the visitor kiosk and the muster roll call
- Pays one subscription. Its contractors pay nothing
One contractor profile
- Company details, linked to Companies House
- Documents, insurance and accreditation certificates, with expiry dates
- The workers a contractor assigns to that client, with their cards
- Vehicles, read-only, with DVSA MOT history and DVLA tax
Keeps it current, for free
- Joins free with a client's code in a couple of minutes: no joining, annual, per-client or per-worker fee
- Adds each new client by entering that client's code
- Has its own workspace for its company, team, vehicles and documents
- Uploads once; every connected client sees the current version
- Gets reminders at 90, 60 and 30 days before anything expires
- Sees its connected clients, their jobs and document requests, and can message them
- Has no Assured Contractors cost to recover in its prices
- The client sends its codeIts company code or invite link, from its Contractors page, by email or text.
- The contractor joins freeThe code and a four-field form: a couple of minutes, connected straight away. Already on Assured Contractors? They enter the code on their dashboard.
- Each side gets on with itThe client reviews against its own requirements; the contractor keeps one profile current for every client.
Who does what
The roles inside Assured Contractors.
Everyone signs in as themselves, with a role that fits the job. Every action they take is in the audit log.
| Role | What they do | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| Admin | Sets up sites, requirement sets, users and branding for a client workspace. | IT & security |
| Client Assurance Reviewer | Reviews contractors' documents, insurance and workers' cards, and accepts or queries them. | Procurement |
| Site Approver | Approves contractors and workers for a specific site. | Site & operations managers |
| Gate / Security | Runs gate mode: searches a person, sees their readiness and records allow, refuse or refer. Sees limited worker information. | Site & operations managers |
| Auditor (read-only) | Reads the audit trail and reports without being able to change anything. | Health & safety teams |
| Company Admin | Runs a contractor's own workspace: company profile, documents, workers, cards and vehicles. | Contractors |
Not sure where Assured Contractors fits next to an accreditation scheme? See how we compare or read SSIP explained.
Two sides of the gate, one record.
Clients start with a 14-day free trial, no card needed, and send their contractors a company code. Contractors join free with it and keep one profile for every client.