High Risk Work Licence (HRWL)

Compliance & inspections

Alerts & automation

Construction

Competency Management

Competency management is the systematic process of defining, assessing, tracking, and developing the skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience that workers need to perform their roles safely and effectively. In asset-intensive industries, competency management covers trade licences, equipment-specific certifications (e.g. forklift, crane, elevated work platform), safety inductions, training completions, and ongoing professional development. The process typically involves defining competency requirements for each role, verifying that workers hold the required qualifications, tracking expiry dates for licences and certifications, scheduling refresher training before credentials lapse, and maintaining auditable records. In Australia, WHS Regulations require PCBUs to ensure that workers are competent to perform high-risk work, and licences for specific high-risk work categories are issued by state and territory regulators. A mature competency management system also includes a skills gap analysis that identifies where current workforce capabilities fall short of operational or regulatory requirements, enabling targeted recruitment, training investment, and succession planning for critical operational roles.

Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU)

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) is the legal concept used in Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) law to identify who holds the primary duty of care for safety. A PCBU is usually a company, partnership, sole trader, or other organisation rather than an individual. It must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers and other people affected by its activities.

Site Induction

A site induction is a structured orientation process that familiarises workers, contractors, and visitors with the specific hazards, safety rules, emergency procedures, and operational requirements of a worksite before they commence work or enter designated areas. In Australia, WHS Regulations require PCBUs and principal contractors to ensure that all persons entering a construction site or other high-risk workplace are inducted with information relevant to their safety. A comprehensive site induction covers site layout and access routes, emergency assembly points and evacuation procedures, hazard-specific controls (e.g. overhead work, mobile plant, confined spaces), PPE requirements, permit-to-work procedures, reporting obligations for incidents and hazards, and any site-specific rules such as speed limits, exclusion zones, or drug and alcohol policies. Inductions may be site-specific (covering the unique characteristics of one location) or general (covering company-wide safety standards). Digital induction platforms have largely replaced paper-based sign-in sheets, enabling workers to complete inductions on their own devices before arriving on site, reducing delays at the gate and creating searchable records of who has been inducted, when, and for which site.

WHS compliance software

WHS compliance software is a digital WHS management system that helps organisations meet Work Health and Safety obligations by managing inspections, incident records, risk assessments, corrective actions, contractor compliance, regulatory reporting and audit trails. It replaces paper registers, spreadsheets and email chains with a searchable system of record that shows what was checked, when it was checked, who completed it, what failed and what evidence was attached.

Plant and Equipment

The plain meaning of plant and equipment is the physical assets a business uses to carry out work: machinery, vehicles, tools, appliances, containers, implements and fixed installations. In Australian WHS language, plant includes any machinery, equipment, appliance, container, implement or tool, plus related components and fittings. In accounting, plant and equipment is usually treated as property, plant and equipment (PPE), a non-current capital asset rather than consumable inventory.