SiteWise prequalification
SiteWise is Site Safe's own health and safety prequalification scheme. It sits outside Tōtika - a SiteWise result doesn't give you Tōtika, and a Tōtika result doesn't give you SiteWise. Which one you need depends on what your client accepts, and plenty of contractors end up asked for both.
Who asks for it
Mainly construction and civil main contractors, and the clients who have built SiteWise into their own contractor approval process. If someone has asked you for a SiteWise grade or a SiteWise score, this is the one they mean.
How you're assessed
You complete an online questionnaire about how you manage health and safety, and upload evidence to back up your answers. It is assessed and you get a percentage and a grade. Gold means 90 per cent or above.
It is an annual assessment, so it comes round again every year. Your result is visible to the clients who check you, so a weak score is not a private problem.
Where contractors lose marks
Almost always on evidence rather than intent. The policy exists but nobody can produce a signed record of the toolbox talk, the training matrix is a year out of date, or the hazard register lists the industry instead of the actual job. The questionnaire asks what you do. The assessor wants to see where it is written down and who signed it.
What we do
We go through the questionnaire with you before you start answering, so you know which questions you can already back up and which ones you can't. Then we write the policies and procedures you're missing and rebuild the ones that aren't earning their keep - so they describe how your crew really works, rather than how a template says they should. Get that right and the assessment largely looks after itself; get it wrong and you've got a folder nobody opens.
Records and certificates come from you - we tell you exactly which ones and chase them up if that helps. We get everything loaded and ready, you hit submit, and we answer the assessor's follow-up questions.
Health and safety law is changing over the next couple of years, and we're keeping across it so your system stays current.
We're not an assessor and we're not connected to any scheme. We can't influence the outcome, and nobody honestly can guarantee a result.