Construction

When WorkCover asksfor your incident log —what do you hand them?

GuardSync gives every worker, tradie, and contractor on your site a way to report hazards and incidents in under 60 seconds. No app. No login. No training. Just scan, report, done — with a timestamped, tamper-evident record that holds up when it needs to.

$250K+

Average cost of a serious construction liability claim

60 sec

Time for any worker to log an incident via QR

48 hrs

GuardSync deployment time — no hardware required

100%

Of reports timestamped and stored permanently on submission

The Problem

Construction sites have a documentation problem nobody talks about.

Your SWMS is filed. Your induction is done. But when an incident happens and WorkCover investigates — the paper trail tells a different story.

The hazard register nobody fills out

Paper-based site registers sit in the site shed. Tradies don't use them. Subcontractors don't have access. Near-misses go unlogged every single day.

A rotating workforce with no reporting path

On any given day your site has 5 subcontractors and 20 tradies who don't work for you, don't have your systems, and have no way to report an issue except finding someone to tell.

Principal contractor liability doesn't stop at your employees

Under the WHS Act, you carry duty of care for everyone on your site. When a subbie's worker is injured and there's no incident record, you wear the exposure.

How It Works

Deploy in 48 hours. No hardware. No IT.

GuardSync is operational from the moment QR codes go up on site. Any worker with a phone can report immediately.

01

QR codes placed on site

Weatherproof QR codes go up at key locations — site entrance, amenities, work zones, machinery areas. Done in under an hour.

02

Anyone scans and reports

Any worker — employee, subie, or day labourer — scans with their phone. No app download. No account. Select the issue and hit send.

03

Right person alerted instantly

Site manager, HSE officer, or nominated contact gets an instant alert. Response is triggered before the hazard becomes an incident.

04

Permanent auditable record

Every report is timestamped, stored securely, and retrievable instantly. Your incident log is always current, always complete, always defensible.

Who It's For

Built for every role on site.

From principal contractors to sole-trader subbies — GuardSync works for everyone on site regardless of who they work for.

Principal Contractors

You carry the broadest WHS exposure on site. GuardSync gives you consolidated incident visibility across every subcontractor and every worker — and a complete audit trail if WorkCover or an insurer comes knocking.

Subcontractors & Trade Businesses

You work across multiple sites with no centralised reporting. One GuardSync deployment covers every site your team works on. Your workers always have a reporting path — regardless of whose site they're on.

Construction Project Managers

You manage projects on behalf of developers and carry personal exposure when documentation fails. GuardSync gives you a defensible record for every project without adding admin overhead.

Property Developers

Running multiple concurrent projects means multiple simultaneous risk exposures. GuardSync's dashboard gives you consolidated incident data across all sites — and demonstrates systematic safety management to insurers and regulators.

Regulatory Obligations

What the WHS Act actually requires on a construction site.

Compliance isn't optional in construction. These are the obligations GuardSync directly supports.

WHS Act 2011 (Cth) s.19

Primary duty of care extends to all workers on site, including subcontractors and their employees.

Incident notification

Serious injuries, dangerous incidents, and near-misses must be reported to the regulator and records retained.

Safe Work Method Statements

Required for all high-risk construction work. Only as defensible as the incident records that support them.

Principal Contractor obligations

Must ensure WHS management systems are in place for the entire site, not just direct employees.

Record retention

Incident records must be retained for a minimum period aligned with limitation periods for personal injury claims.

Reasonably practicable standard

Courts will assess whether adequate reporting infrastructure was in place. QR-based systems are now widely available and affordable.

A principal contractor who cannot produce contemporaneous incident records for their site is unable to demonstrate that they met their primary duty of care — regardless of how robust their SWMS documentation may be. The obligation is to manage risk, and management requires evidence.

Safe Work Australia, WHS Compliance Framework Guidance
Without vs With GuardSync

What happens when something goes wrong on site.

The difference between a defended claim and an indefensible one is documentation. This is what that looks like in practice.

Without GuardSync

  1. 01Tradie notices a hazard, mentions it verbally
  2. 02No record created — report relies on memory
  3. 03Hazard persists. Incident occurs.
  4. 04WorkCover investigates. Requests incident log.
  5. 05No log exists. Compliance failure + liability claim.

No record. No defence. Full exposure.

Investigation + claim + potential prosecution.

With GuardSync

  1. 01Tradie scans QR code — 60 seconds
  2. 02Report timestamped and stored instantly
  3. 03Site manager alerted. Hazard addressed.
  4. 04Resolution logged with timestamp
  5. 05Complete audit trail ready for any investigation

Documented. Defensible. Done.

Full chain of custody. Regulator-ready records.

Get Started

Ready to close your documentation gap?

GuardSync deploys on your construction site in 48 hours. No hardware. No IT. No lock-in. Every worker reporting from day one.