Competency Management

SkillGuard holds extensive information around a worker’s competency – their ability to perform their particular tasks effectively. This comprises full records around their national qualifications, as well as awards from major contractors, project and site events – all of which combine with other worker data, such as occupational health status, to provide real-time authority to work.

Competency data can also be mapped into job roles, enabling our clients to perform instant and powerful sweeps across the system finding perfect matches, as well as near matches for skills forecasting and planning.

Qualification updates can be entered by authorised users (including training providers if required) in seconds and surfaced immediately onto the worker’s card when checked. Employers acting as principal contractors are able to create competencies and enable them to be delivered on site as a site-based event which is awardable through the SkillGuard app.

There is also a verification option for clients. This enables the supply chain to upload their workforce’s training credentials but these will not be valid on the system until verification is completed by a trusted third party on the system.

Dedicated IOS and Android Apps

The SkillGuard app makes it easy for your workforce’s smartcards to be checked and authenticated wherever they might be. With it, your card checkers are able to determine each worker’s authority to work with no extra technology required – no need for phone calls or additional computers, card scanners or access control systems to be assured that everyone in the team is safe to work.

As well as the SkillGuard app being the perfect choice for any defined or closed site, it is also the ideal solution for projects where the workforce are active across large or open locations, as the app simply travels on the card checker’s smartphone.

The technology is best-in-class, as we use high-security, high-capacity smartcards and have built our solution around the way many of our clients work – including harsh or remote locations where mobile comms cannot be relied on 24/7. This means we offer two ways that our cards can be read – either using secure QR code checks when mobile comms are available, coupled with the smartcard’s NFC capabilities even when all comms are down, so cards can always be checked.

Both our Android and iOS apps are NFC enabled.

Targeted Messaging to Your  Workforce and Supply Chain

SkillGuard’s integrated Messaging module transforms the ways in which you can communicate directly with your workforce. It works by sending messages to your workers’ smartphones -  whether directly employed or simply within your supply chain - via our Vircarda high-security e-card wallet. This allows you to communicate directly with the individuals that make up your workforce, whether the message is for all your workers or a targeted group. Messages can be created and sent in a matter of minutes, you simply need to create your message - including any links, images, buttons or downloads - select your audience, then send or schedule the message.

Of course, being part of SkillGuard, this state-of-the-art functionality is coupled with full audit, enabling you to track and report on engagement and audience penetration. The safety benefits are enormous, for the first time, you can target key messages and be certain of who has received them and registered their contents.

Linked Schemes

As the global leader in mobile workforce solutions, we bring our major market presence to you as an additional service.

Many operatives, especially those with in-demand skills, work across sectors or industries. All of our clients hold and manage their own set of records for their workforces, using their instance of SkillGuard to manage their specific access rules and agreed criteria for authority to work. Our market presence means that a substantial percentage of operatives have active records in a number of SkillGuard systems. Our Linked Scheme approach enables us to marshal this data across our SkillGuard implementations to help keep everyone safe. 

Upon arrival on site, a worker’s card is checked. Our Linked Scheme capability will flag when workers last worked and how much rest they have had (including travel time) even if their most recent work was for a different client and SkillGuard scheme.

This unique Linked Scheme functionality extends opportunities to protect workforces and help keep them safe, whilst still allowing each of our enterprise clients to manage their own business rules, without compromise.