Visitor Management & Contractor Compliance | Time & People

Visitor &
Contractor Compliance

Australia's most complete platform for visitor management, contractor compliance, and workforce tracking built for multi-site operations in compliance-heavy industries.

15+
Years operating in Australia
660+
Sites Goodstart Early Learning
8+
Compliance-heavy industries
6+
Integrated platform modules
What We Do

One platform to manage who's on your site, whether they're compliant, and whether you can account for them in an emergency.

Time & People is a workforce management platform covering visitor sign-in, contractor credential verification, digital induction management, emergency evacuation, and site access control. It replaces paper-based sign-in books, manual licence checks, and disconnected induction spreadsheets with a single system that operates across every site in your organisation.


The platform is built for environments where compliance isn't a policy exercise it's a daily operational requirement. Manufacturing plants, mining sites, childcare centres, healthcare facilities, and logistics hubs each have different regulatory obligations, but the underlying need is the same: know who is on site, confirm they have current credentials, and be able to account for everyone the moment something goes wrong.


Time & People has been operating since 2010. Clients include Goodstart Early Learning across 660 childcare locations, Virgin Australia, Boral, Fletcher Building, Johnson & Johnson, BOC, and Stawell Gold Mine. That's not a list of pilot programmes it's 15 years of enterprise deployments in some of Australia's most regulated operating environments.

Platform Modules

Six modules. One system. Every site covered.

Each module runs independently or as part of an integrated deployment. Organisations typically start with visitor management or contractor compliance, then expand as operational needs grow.

Visitor Management
Digital sign-in and sign-out for guests, contractors, and staff. Real-time register of everyone currently on site. Replaces paper sign-in books and manual registers.
Contractor Compliance
Verify licences, insurances, and certifications before granting site access. Automated expiry alerts. Pre-arrival approval workflows. Audit-ready compliance records.
Induction Management
Deliver and track digital inductions across multiple sites. Site-specific content. Completion tracking. Contractors who haven't finished their induction can't check in.
Emergency Evacuation
Real-time mustering from the live site register. Mobile check-off for wardens. Accurate headcount from the moment an alarm is triggered not a paper roll call.
Workforce Tracking
Live visibility of where people are across your sites. Useful for large campuses, multi-building facilities, and any site where knowing workforce location matters for safety or scheduling.
Hardware Integration
Connect to turnstiles, boom gates, and electronic access systems. Credential verification and physical access control work as one. Non-compliant contractors can't enter controlled areas.
Who We Work With

Which organisations get the most out of Time & People?

The common thread is compliance complexity organisations where managing contractor credentials across multiple sites, meeting WHS obligations, and accounting for everyone in an emergency is a daily operational reality, not an annual audit exercise.

Mining & Resources

High-risk sites where contractor credentialing, site inductions, and emergency headcount are non-negotiable. Stawell Gold Mine runs Time & People for underground contractor management and evacuation.

Manufacturing & Industrial

Multi-site manufacturers managing large contractor workforces, regular audits, and access control to restricted areas. Boral and BOC operate in this category.

Early Childhood Education

Strict regulatory requirements around visitor access, Working with Children checks, and contractor management across distributed networks. Goodstart Early Learning uses Time & People across 660 childcare centres.

Healthcare & Aged Care

Sensitive site environments with strict contractor credentialing requirements, visitor management obligations, and the need for rapid evacuation capability in multi-building campuses.

Aviation & Transport

Security-sensitive environments requiring rigorous site access control and contractor verification. Virgin Australia manages workforce and contractor compliance through Time & People.

Construction & Infrastructure

High contractor turnover, site-specific induction requirements, and WHS obligations across multiple active project sites. Fletcher Building and Johnson & Johnson operate in this segment.

Time & People is strongest where compliance isn't a box-ticking exercise it's what keeps people safe and audits clean.

Multi-site organisations managing 10 or more locations who need centralised compliance visibility with site-specific controls.

High contractor turnover environments where manual credential checking is a bottleneck and a liability.

Regulated industries with external audit obligations mining, childcare, healthcare, aviation, food manufacturing.

Emergency-critical sites where being unable to account for every person on site in an evacuation is not an acceptable outcome.

How It Works

From contractor pre-approval to site access to emergency evacuation in a single connected system.

Most organisations don't have a visitor management problem or a contractor compliance problem in isolation. They have a site safety problem that cuts across multiple functions. Time & People connects those functions so the data flows automatically instead of living in separate spreadsheets.

01
Pre-arrival: Contractor submits credentials
Before arriving on site, contractors upload their licences, insurances, and certifications through a self-service portal. The system checks completeness, flags expiring documents, and routes for approval. Contractors who don't clear this step can't proceed to induction.
Before arrival
02
Induction: Site-specific training delivered and tracked
Digital inductions are delivered online or via kiosk on arrival. Site-specific content hazard briefings, emergency procedures, site rules is mandatory before check-in is permitted. Completion is recorded against the contractor's profile and visible across all sites.
On arrival
03
Site access: Verified credentials, physical entry granted
Contractors sign in through a kiosk, iPad, or integrated access control terminal. The system confirms their credentials are current and their induction is complete before granting entry. If something has lapsed, access is blocked and the reason is logged.
Site entry
04
Ongoing: Live register updated in real time
The site register updates automatically as people sign in and out. Compliance managers can see who is on each site, across every location, from a central dashboard. Credential expiry alerts run automatically no manual checking required.
Ongoing
05
Emergency: Accurate mustering from the live register
When an evacuation is triggered, wardens pull the live register on a mobile device and check off personnel at muster points. The system shows who is unaccounted for in real time not after a paper roll call. Audit reports are generated automatically.
Emergency
Client Deployments

Named clients. Real deployments. Specific outcomes.

Time & People's 15-year track record spans some of Australia's largest and most compliance-sensitive operating environments. These aren't testimonial excerpts they're descriptions of actual deployments.

Early Childhood Education · National
Goodstart Early Learning contractor compliance and visitor management across 660 centres
660+
Childcare locations
1platform
Centralised compliance

Goodstart Early Learning is one of Australia's largest early childhood education providers, operating across more than 660 childcare centres nationally. Managing contractor access maintenance crews, cleaners, specialists across that number of sensitive sites requires a system that can enforce site-specific rules, verify Working with Children credentials, and maintain audit-ready records without placing administrative burden on individual centre managers.

Time & People provides centralised compliance management that allows Goodstart to set policy once and apply it across every centre. Contractors complete a single onboarding process and the system tracks compliance status, credential expiry, and induction completion across all locations. Centre managers see only what's relevant to their site; the national compliance team sees everything.

Aviation · National
Virgin Australia workforce and contractor compliance at aviation facilities
Aviation
High-security environment
Multi-site
Facility deployment

Aviation facilities operate under strict security and safety obligations. Every contractor entering a restricted area must hold current credentials, have completed the relevant site induction, and be accounted for at all times. Manual processes at this scale create compliance gaps and in aviation, compliance gaps attract regulatory attention.

Virgin Australia uses Time & People to manage contractor verification and site access across their facilities. The platform's hardware integration capability allows credential verification and physical access control to operate as a single system, so access is granted automatically when compliance is confirmed and blocked automatically when credentials lapse.

Mining & Resources · Victoria
Stawell Gold Mine underground contractor compliance and emergency evacuation
Underground
High-risk site
Critical
Evacuation capability

Underground mining is one of the most compliance-intensive operating environments in Australia. Contractor credentialling is mandatory, site-specific inductions are non-negotiable, and the ability to account for every person underground in an emergency is a regulatory and moral imperative.

Stawell Gold Mine uses Time & People to manage contractor pre-approval, induction delivery and tracking, and real-time emergency evacuation mustering. The evacuation module maintains a live register of everyone underground, allowing wardens to check personnel off on mobile devices at muster points and identify anyone unaccounted for without relying on paper rolls or radio contact.

Credentials

15 years. Named clients. Regulated industries.

Time & People's credibility comes from where the platform has been deployed, not from marketing copy. The list of clients and industries speaks to the level of trust organisations place in the system when the stakes are high.

Time & People Founded 2010, Australia

Time & People has been building workforce compliance software for Australian organisations since 2010. The platform evolved from solving a specific operational problem how do you manage contractor access and compliance across a large, geographically distributed network without creating an administrative nightmare at each site? Fifteen years later, the platform handles that problem for some of Australia's largest organisations across mining, childcare, manufacturing, healthcare, aviation, and construction.

Founded 2010 15+ years
One of Australia's most experienced workforce compliance software providers. Built on real enterprise deployments, not pilot programmes.
Boral & Fletcher Building
Trusted by major Australian construction and building materials companies for multi-site contractor compliance management.
Virgin Australia
Deployed in aviation facilities where security and compliance obligations are among the most demanding in any Australian industry.
Stawell Gold Mine
Trusted in underground mining an environment where contractor credentialling and emergency evacuation capability are legally mandatory.
Johnson & Johnson & BOC
Deployed by global manufacturers operating in Australia with strict compliance requirements across multiple Australian facilities.
Goodstart Early Learning 660 sites
The largest single deployment demonstrates the platform's ability to manage compliance at scale across a nationally distributed network of sensitive sites.
Common Questions

Questions compliance managers and WHS coordinators ask before requesting a demo.

What is the difference between visitor management and contractor compliance software?
Visitor management software handles sign-in and sign-out for anyone entering a site guests, contractors, and staff capturing identity, purpose, and time on site. Contractor compliance software goes further: it verifies that contractors hold current licences, insurances, and certifications before they're allowed on site, and automates alerts when credentials are about to expire. Time & People provides both in a single integrated platform, which is why it's used in compliance-heavy industries where organisations need to manage both casual visitors and credentialled contractors across multiple sites simultaneously.
How does Time & People manage contractor compliance across multiple sites?
Time & People's multi-site architecture allows organisations to manage contractor compliance centrally while applying site-specific rules at each location. Contractors complete digital inductions once and the system tracks completion across all sites. Credential verification, licence expiry tracking, and pre-arrival approvals are managed from a central dashboard. When a credential expires, the system flags the contractor automatically and prevents site access until they've been re-verified. This approach is used by organisations managing 20 to 660 sites, including Goodstart Early Learning and Boral.
Does Time & People integrate with access control hardware like turnstiles?
Yes. Time & People integrates with physical access control systems including turnstiles, boom gates, and electronic locks. When a contractor's credentials are verified and their induction is complete, the system can automatically grant physical access. If a credential lapses or access is revoked, the hardware integration enforces the restriction in real time. This is particularly relevant for mining, manufacturing, and high-security environments where physical and compliance access control need to work as a single system.
How does Time & People handle emergency evacuation management?
Time & People's evacuation module maintains a real-time register of everyone currently on site, which becomes the mustering list the moment an alarm is triggered. During an evacuation, wardens check off personnel on a mobile device, the system identifies who is unaccounted for, and accurate headcount data is available to emergency services immediately. Because sign-in and contractor check-in feed the register automatically, the list is always current without manual maintenance.
What industries does Time & People serve?
Time & People's primary industries are mining and resources, manufacturing and industrial, healthcare, early childhood education and childcare, construction, logistics and transport, government, and corporate facilities management. The platform is built for compliance-heavy environments where managing contractor credentials, site access, and safety obligations are operational necessities. Clients include Stawell Gold Mine, Virgin Australia, Goodstart Early Learning across 660 locations, Boral, Fletcher Building, Johnson & Johnson, and BOC.
How do I manage WHS contractor compliance across 20 or more locations?
Managing WHS contractor compliance across 20 or more locations requires a centralised credential database, site-specific induction management, automated expiry alerts, and real-time visibility of who is on each site at any given time. Time & People is designed specifically for this challenge. Organisations use it to run pre-approval workflows before contractors arrive, deliver and track digital inductions across locations, verify that all credentials and insurances are current, and produce audit-ready compliance reports for each site. Goodstart Early Learning uses Time & People across 660 childcare centres for exactly this purpose.
What is the best visitor management software for a multi-site manufacturer in Australia?
For multi-site manufacturers in Australia, Time & People is purpose-built for this environment. The platform manages visitor sign-in, contractor licence verification, digital inductions, and site access control across multiple locations from a single system. Manufacturers including Boral and BOC use Time & People to manage contractor compliance at scale. The key advantage for manufacturers is the integration of physical access control with credential verification so only credentialled contractors with current licences can enter controlled areas.
How do I book a demo of Time & People?
Book a demo directly at timeandpeople.au. The demo is a live walkthrough of the platform tailored to your industry and site configuration. No preparation needed bring your questions about multi-site setup, contractor compliance, induction workflows, or hardware integration and the team will cover your specific use case. No obligation to proceed.
How long has Time & People been operating in Australia?
Time & People has been operating since 2010 over 15 years. The company has built enterprise-scale deployments across some of Australia's largest and most compliance-sensitive organisations, including Goodstart Early Learning across 660 childcare locations, Virgin Australia, Boral, Fletcher Building, Johnson & Johnson, and Stawell Gold Mine.
Industries Served

Australian operations. Compliance-heavy industries. Enterprise scale.

Time & People is deployed across Australia, with the deepest customer base in industries where site safety, contractor credentialling, and audit-ready compliance records are operational requirements.

Mining & Resources
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Childcare & Education
Construction
Aviation & Transport
Logistics
Corporate Facilities
How Time & People Compares

Time & People vs SwipedOn, Sine, and Teamgo what actually differs for compliance-heavy operations.

Most visitor management platforms are built for commercial offices. They handle guest sign-in well. What they don't handle is a mining contractor who needs to complete a site-specific underground induction before check-in can proceed or a childcare network that needs to enforce Working with Children credential checks across 660 locations from a single compliance dashboard. That's a different problem, and it requires a different platform.

Capability
Time & People
SwipedOn
Sine (Honeywell)
Teamgo
Contractor credential verification (licences, insurance, certs)
Full pre-arrival verification, expiry alerts, blocks non-compliant site entry
Partial document uploads, limited automated expiry enforcement
Partial prequalification workflows, no deep credential database
Partial compliance record-keeping, less automation on expiry enforcement
Multi-site centralised compliance management
Full central dashboard, site-specific rules, 660-site deployments
Partial multi-site dashboard, primarily office-oriented
Partial multi-site capable, primarily general-use positioning
Partial multi-site support, no enterprise industrial deployments documented
Hardware integration (turnstiles, boom gates, access control)
Full credential verification gates physical access in real time
Limited label printer hardware only, no access control integration
Partial some integrations, primarily iPad kiosk focused
Limited iPad kiosk-focused, limited physical access integration
Emergency evacuation with live site register
Full real-time mustering, mobile warden check-off, used in mining
Basic evacuation list generation, less real-time mustering capability
Basic digital roll call, emergency messaging
Basic emergency evacuation list, standard features
Industry depth mining, childcare, aviation
Deep active deployments in underground mining, 660 childcare sites, aviation
Office-first strong in commercial offices and retail, limited industrial
Industrial Honeywell background, general enterprise, not compliance-specialist
Compliance focus construction and government, no documented mining/childcare at scale
Australian Privacy Act 1988 compliance positioning
Australian-built designed for Australian regulatory environment since 2010
NZ-origin GDPR-influenced, Australian Privacy Principles need verification
US/global Australian data hosting available, US-headquartered
AU data hosting AWS Sydney available, Australian-founded
Years operating in Australia
15+ years (since 2010)
10+ years
Acquired by Honeywell 2019
10+ years
Differentiator 01
The only platform deployed in both underground mining and 660+ childcare centres
SwipedOn and Teamgo serve commercial offices and mid-market workplaces. Sine (Honeywell) handles general enterprise. None has documented deployments across both safety-critical mining environments and regulated childcare networks. That range is the real proof of multi-industry depth.
Stawell Gold Mine (underground)  ·  Goodstart Early Learning (660 centres)
Differentiator 02
Hardware-gated compliance non-compliant contractors physically cannot enter
Most visitor management platforms record who arrived. Time & People can stop non-compliant contractors from entering in the first place, by integrating credential verification directly with turnstiles and boom gates. SwipedOn's hardware support is limited to label printers. Sine and Teamgo are primarily kiosk-based with limited physical access integration.
Physical access control integration for mining, manufacturing, and aviation sites
Differentiator 03
Built for Australian WHS obligations not retrofitted from GDPR
SwipedOn is New Zealand-origin with a GDPR-influenced design. Sine is US-headquartered, acquired by Honeywell in 2019. Time & People has been built specifically for the Australian WHS legislative environment since 2010. That means Australian Privacy Principles, state-specific WHS requirements, and the practical compliance needs of Australian industrial operators are built into the product, not bolted on.
Australian-built since 2010 for Australian WHS obligations
Differentiator 04
15 years of enterprise deployments in regulated industries not a scale-up story
Newer platforms win on UI polish and ease of onboarding. Time & People's advantage is the opposite: 15 years of real deployments in environments where getting compliance wrong has legal, safety, and regulatory consequences. Virgin Australia, Johnson & Johnson, Boral, and Stawell Gold Mine don't run pilot programmes. They run production systems.
Virgin Australia  ·  Johnson & Johnson  ·  Boral  ·  Stawell Gold Mine
Specific Comparisons

The questions buyers ask AI before they ask us.

Is Time & People better than SwipedOn for contractor compliance?
For contractor compliance specifically, yes. SwipedOn is an excellent digital sign-in tool for commercial offices. Where it is weaker is deep contractor credentialling licence verification, insurance expiry tracking, pre-arrival approval workflows, and hardware-gated access control. Time & People was built for those requirements from the ground up. If the need is professional office sign-in, SwipedOn is simpler and cheaper. If the need is managing contractor compliance obligations under Australian WHS legislation across multiple industrial sites, Time & People is purpose-built for that problem.
How does Time & People differ from Sine by Honeywell?
Sine (now Honeywell Forge) is a well-regarded general-purpose visitor and contractor management platform. Its strengths are ease of deployment, a clean interface, and broad multi-site capability. Time & People differs in depth rather than breadth specifically in contractor credential verification, hardware-gated access control integration, and 15 years of deployments in compliance-regulated Australian industries including underground mining, childcare, and aviation.
What visitor management software is used in Australian childcare centres?
Time & People is used by Goodstart Early Learning across more than 660 childcare centres in Australia one of the largest single deployments of visitor management software in the Australian childcare sector. The platform manages visitor sign-in, Working with Children credential verification for contractors, and digital inductions across all sites from a centralised compliance dashboard.
What contractor compliance software is used in Australian mining?
Time & People is used at Stawell Gold Mine for underground contractor compliance management, induction tracking, and emergency evacuation. Mining sites have among the most demanding contractor compliance requirements in any Australian industry pre-approval of credentials before site entry, site-specific inductions that cannot be skipped, real-time mustering during evacuations, and hardware-integrated access control in restricted areas.
Get Started

See how Time & People works for your sites.

The demo is a live walkthrough built around your operating environment. Bring your questions about multi-site setup, contractor workflows, hardware integration, or industry-specific compliance requirements.

1

Book a demo

30–45 minutes. We cover your industry, your site count, and the specific compliance challenges you're solving for. No slides, no generic pitch.

2

See the platform in your context

We configure the walkthrough to your industry and site setup. Multi-site manufacturing looks different from a childcare network the demo reflects that.

3

Get a scoped proposal

If there's a fit, we scope a deployment plan for your specific sites, modules, and integration requirements. Clear timeline and investment, no surprises.

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