Health & safety
What we verify, what gets recorded, and exactly where the legal duty sits. We're straight about the last one, because a supplier who is vague about it is a supplier who creates work for you later.
Before anyone arrives
None of it replaces your own arrangements. All of it means the man walking up to your gate is the man you were expecting, with a card that is real and paperwork already done.
Not glanced at — checked. Every CSCS card is entered into the official CSCS Smart Check by a person, and the worker also sends a photo of himself holding it so the face matches the card. A photo of somebody else's card proves nothing, and we treat it that way. The verified badge only appears after a human has looked.
You give us your site induction — your words, your video, your RAMS. It goes to the worker before his first day. He reads it, answers the questions, and signs it with his name and the date. Get a question wrong and he's sent back to read it again.
A printed code on the gate, scanned with a phone camera and checked against the site's location. It produces an attendance record you didn't have to keep by hand — useful on a normal week, and the thing you want to be able to produce on a bad one.
A signature is worthless if the document can change underneath it. So every signature is tied to the exact version it was given against. Update your RAMS and last month's sign-offs stop counting — the crew is asked to read the new one. That is the whole point of keeping the record at all.
Straight about this
Under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 — CDM 2015 — making sure a suitable site induction is given is the principal contractor's duty. That duty is yours. It cannot be handed to a labour supplier, and we are not going to pretend otherwise to win work.
So the line we hold is simple, and it is built into the product rather than written on a page and forgotten:
Site Match records that an induction was completed. It does not certify that the induction was adequate — that stays with the principal contractor. There is nowhere in our system for us to write safety content, on purpose.
Worth being clear
A short list, because knowing where a supplier stops is more useful than a long list of what they claim to cover.
They're your documents, about your site, written by people who have stood on it. We take what you send and put it in front of the right workers. Nobody can write a method statement for someone else's work.
We introduce them. You engage them and you pay them directly, exactly as you would a subcontractor you found yourself. No money passes between us and the worker.
We've never been on it. We verify tickets and we record paperwork — that's a different claim, and a much more useful one than a badge that means nothing.
Your H&S policy, your risk assessments, your competent advice and your site rules all stay exactly where they are. What we remove is the chasing: the card that turns out to have expired, the lad who arrives never having seen the induction.
If you're a labourer
This isn't your induction — the site gives you that, and the site's version is the one that counts. This is just what normally happens, so nothing is a surprise on the first morning.
You'll be taken through that site's rules before you start. Where we're involved you'll get it on your phone beforehand, which means less standing about in the cabin on day one. Follow what it tells you — it's specific to that site for a reason.
Most main contractors won't let you past the gate without a valid CSCS card. We'll tell you before yours runs out rather than after, so a renewal never costs you a week's work.
Requirements vary by site and by task, and the induction will set them out. Turn up with what you've been told to bring; if you're not sure before the day, ask us and we'll find out.
Tell the site manager. You will never be marked down, dropped from the list, or passed over for work through Site Match for refusing something you believed was unsafe. If a site gives you grief for it, tell us — we'd rather lose that site than a good worker.
Where the guidance actually lives
We verify and we record. For the rules themselves, go to the people whose job it is — and whose guidance is kept up to date.
The regulator. Construction guidance, and how to report a dangerous site.
Nothing on this page is health and safety advice, and it isn't legal advice either. It describes what Site Match does and doesn't do.
Verified cards, your induction already signed, and a record of who was on site. Birmingham first.