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Site Compliance & Diaries for Construction & Trades

Safety and licensing evidence cannot live on personal phones — auditors and principal contractors expect job-linked SWMS, inductions, and photos when they ask, not a week later.

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Operating pressure this addresses

Site diaries, toolbox talks, and subcontractor insurances scatter across WhatsApp and email. When a principal contractor or regulator requests records, reconstruction burns senior time and risks gaps.

What good looks like

Compliance pack per job: SWMS, inductions, insurance certificates, and key site photos retrievable by job code in minutes.

  • Subcontractor compliance checked before mobilisation, not after.
  • Daily diary entries with weather, crew, and incidents — even brief.
  • Photo tags linked to job and location, not camera roll scroll.

Trade-offs

Start with document control and checklists before rolling apps to every tradesperson — leadership needs one truth first.

Free-form chat is not a system of record; route approvals through named workflows.

Practical next steps

  1. 1
    Audit last principal request

    List every document you had to find for the last compliance chase — that is your minimum feature set.

  2. 2
    Standardise naming

    Job folder template: SWMS, insurances, variations, photos — same structure every job.

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