Your subcontractors' own subcontractors (tier 2)
A subcontractor can add the businesses it brings with it. Each is checked against your requirements like anyone else, but isn't cleared until you approve it.
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Applies to: Subcontractor Vetting · Administrator, Safety officer (HSEQ), Project team, Project or site manager, Director or executive, Subcontractors
A subcontractor on your register (tier 1) can add its own subcontractors (tier 2), such as labour hire or a specialist trade. Each tier 2 gets its own iComply profile, is on your register "via" the subcontractor that added it, and is checked at the gate like anyone else, but isn't cleared until you approve it.
How a subcontractor adds one
- Step 1: In their iComply account, they open Your subcontractors and choose your company.
- Step 2: They enter the Business name, Email and, if they like, Contact name and Trade, and select Invite them.
- Step 3: The tier 2 is invited by email. It follows the same category as the subcontractor unless they choose another of yours.
How to approve or remove one
- Step 1: Open your register and select Their subcontractors. They're grouped by the subcontractor that added them.
- Step 2: Change a tier 2's category if you need to (select Change).
- Step 3: Select Approve, or enter a reason (optional) and select Remove. Removing takes them off every site.
Settings (company admins)
- Subcontractors can add their own subcontractors (two levels at most).
- Put approved ones on the sites their subcontractor is on, when you approve them and whenever that subcontractor goes on another site, so those sites' requirements apply.
- A subcontractor isn't cleared while any of its approved subcontractors isn't. Off: the subcontractor stays cleared and shows "1 of its subcontractors not cleared".
- Select Save settings.
What happens next
- You're emailed when a subcontractor adds a tier 2 (notice kind Subcontractors' own subcontractors). The subcontractor and the tier 2 are told when you approve or remove it.
- A tier 2 waiting for approval isn't cleared; a removed one is red.
- A tier 2 can't add its own: two levels at most.
Limits
A subcontractor can add up to 20 an hour. A business already on your register can't be added under someone.
The subcontractor sees whether each of its subcontractors is cleared and what isn't met, never their documents, unless the tier 2 chooses to share them. Approvals and removals are in the audit log.