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Your Contractors are Good to Work, Right?

It’s 5 am. A work crew arrives at the gate. You recognize the company name logo, but the faces are new. The workers scan their badges. A green check flashes on the screen.

Badge scan 1
● Approved
Badge scan 2
● Approved
Badge scan 3
● Approved

They scan their badges. A green check flashes on the screen.

But green checks don’t always mean good to work.

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They are a subcontractor, recently awarded work. They have had their coffee and they are ready to go.
96%

At least 96% of contractors arrive to work with serious safety training gaps, according to Veriforce contractor assessment data.

40%

Up to 40% of contractors who arrived to work at one North American midstream energy company had unverified or incomplete safety training data.

Prequalification: Why Green Badge Scans/A Green Check Answers the Wrong Questions

It confirms the company met your requirements on the day someone reviewed them. It does not confirm that the person holding the badge is trained, current and authorized for the task in front of them.

Those two facts drift apart for ordinary reasons

Prequalification is a term we all know, but few of us define it the same way.

It was built to confirm compliance at a company level, at a single point in time, before work begins. A stagnant data point, widely misused and widely accepted.

Prequalification: Why A Green Check Answers the Wrong Questions

Prequalification confirms compliance at the contractor company level – not the worker level. But it doesn’t confirm if workers have up-to-date training and authorizations to perform specific tasks before the work begins.

Compliance on Paper Doesn’t Mean Defensible.

Every system, portal, or spreadsheet makes expired or outdated contractor records appear up to date. How fast can you produce an accurate paper trail?

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Contractor Risk has Changed.

Get more details in Veriforce’s latest article and learn four simple steps to take before your next crew shows up to work.