The Shore Group has announced its latest innovation to their Portal – a proactive and transparent solution for construction worker compliance, to be launched in September 2023.
The enhanced software enables construction contracts to view complete worker compliance information in real-time, providing necessary insight and management information. This will not only improve the safety of all labour on-site, but also enhance corporate compliance of main contractors throughout their supply chain.
Important UK construction projects routinely requite hundreds of workers from multiple contractors and labour suppliers to be on site an any one time. Therefore, making sure that every worker is fully compliant is a crucial step towards a safer site, in order to comply with HMRC guidelines and to protect against risks including modern slavery.
Compliance checks involve multiple types of ID, proof of right to work and skills documentation to provide evidence that workers are safe and legal to work. Theoretically, each individual check should be simple to complete. However ineligible workers and unscrupulous labour suppliers can seek to circumvent these checks with incomplete or fake documentation. This creates a significant risk for the whole supply chain as enforcement action can be taken by HMRC and other government agencies for all parties involved. And with migrant workers often comprising over 50% of the workforce, documents that need to be checked come from multiple different countries. This scale of supply chain makes management of worker compliance a complex challenge for everyone involved.
Co-Founder of The Shore Group, Lewis Yorke-Johnson says, “Compliance screening should be a routine process for all involved. Sadly, we see up to 15% of all applications failing due to forged documents, fake IDs and expired skills cards. If these workers were to make it on-site, that puts a significant number of people at risk. It’s why total compliance is an absolute business priority for us and our clients.”
This latest enhancement from the Portal provides a complete, real-time record for each worker on-site. This includes visibility of the original ID, proof of right to work and skills card documentation providing Project Managers and site management with accurate, transparent compliance evidence.
This functionality builds on the Portal’s cost control features which give contractors the ability to view labour spend and set thresholds that prevent the common issue of budget overspends. With the option to order the skills and labour required, the Portal is the only application offering a single point of control for labour management, cost control and compliance assurance.
“The relaxation of migrant worker rules is a major benefit for areas where the labour market is really tight. Unfortunately, there will be workers and labour providers who will seek to take advantage of these changes even though they don’t meet the requirements. Managing worker compliance needs to stay front of mind. Every non-compliant worker puts colleagues and the wider community at risk.”
Offering a powerful solution to the two biggest issues faced by contractors, The Portal opens the door to new levels of compliance and cost control.
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