Compliant trades and construction crews, on demand

A request goes out to every matched worker who is available for those dates and whose tickets are current, all at the same time, and acceptances come back through the app. For general labour where the requirement is a ConstructSafe Foundation pass and a site induction, the pool is broad and cover is usually straightforward. For ticketed trades — a scaffolder with the right Certificate of Competence class, or a practising STMS — availability is genuinely narrower, and we would rather tell you that honestly up front than confirm a booking we cannot fill. Either way you find out quickly instead of after three days of phone calls.

Pre-employment and random drug and alcohol testing is standard practice on most New Zealand sites, and testing status is recorded against a worker's profile along with the date it was carried out, so you can see it before you confirm rather than discovering a gap at the gate. Induction works the same way: Site Safe passport status and your own site-specific induction are both tracked, and a worker who has not completed your induction is flagged as needing it before first entry. Because requirements differ between principals and between sites, we hold your specific regime against your account rather than assuming a single industry default.

General labourers and hammer hands through to carpenters, formworkers, steel fixers, concreters, scaffolders, traffic controllers and STMS, machine and plant operators, and civil crew. On the ticket side we verify and monitor ConstructSafe assessments across all tiers, Site Safe passports, SARNZ scaffolding Certificates of Competence including Elementary, Trade and Restricted, HIANZ Silvercard EWP competency, and NZTA F, W, T and R endorsements. Each ticket is recorded with its expiry so it stops counting the day it lapses.

Both parties do, and that is the point rather than a loophole. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 a PCBU's workers include employees of labour-hire companies, so a worker placed on your site is your worker for health and safety purposes as well as ours. Section 34 requires PCBUs who share a duty for the same matter to consult, cooperate and coordinate with each other. Aroha Connect is built around that: the verification record, induction status and hours worked are visible to both sides, which is what consulting and coordinating actually looks like in practice. It does not transfer your duty to us, and any provider who tells you it does is wrong.

Approved timesheets flow straight into a payroll-ready export, which is what makes a weekly pay cycle practical rather than an administrative burden. ACC levies and holiday pay are handled through normal payroll obligations for the engaging employer, and because the platform holds an accurate, approved record of hours by worker by week, the figures those calculations depend on are correct at source. Note that holiday pay treatment for casual and variable-hours workers is changing — see our retail page for detail on the transition, since it applies across every industry.

Yes, and this is usually the reason construction clients come to us rather than putting more people on permanently. Programme dates move, weather closes a window, a consent milestone slips. You can post for eight people on Monday and four on Wednesday without renegotiating anything, and the workers who have already been inducted on your site are the ones offered first, so you are not re-inducting a fresh crew every time.