Your contractors' own subcontractors (tier 2)
A contractor 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: Contractor Vetting · Administrator, Safety officer (HSEQ), Team member, Project or site manager, Director or executive, Contractors
A contractor 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 contractor that added it, and is checked at the gate like anyone else, but isn't cleared until you approve it.
How a contractor adds one
- Step 1: In their iComply account, they open Your subcontractors and choose your business.
- 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 contractor 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 contractor 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 (admins)
- Contractors can add their own subcontractors (two levels at most).
- Put approved ones on the sites their contractor is on, when you approve them and whenever that contractor goes on another site, so those sites' requirements apply.
- A contractor isn't cleared while any of its approved subcontractors isn't. Off: the contractor stays cleared and shows "1 of its subcontractors not cleared".
- Select Save settings.
What happens next
- You're emailed when a contractor adds a tier 2 (notice kind Contractors' own subcontractors). The contractor 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 contractor can add up to 20 an hour. A business already on your register can't be added under someone.
The contractor 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.