On any given day at a large industrial site, half the people on the property may not be your employees. They're contractors — mechanical, electrical, insulation, scaffold, specialty services — and every one of them brings their own training records, their own insurance certificates, their own safety programs, and their own risk profile. Third-party prequalification platforms like ISNetworld and Avetta serve tens of thousands of contractors across hundreds of hiring clients precisely because managing this on paper doesn't scale, and the incidents that happen when it fails don't distinguish between employee and contractor. Verifying insurance, training, and permits before a contractor sets foot on site — and monitoring their work while they're on it — is what keeps third-party risk from becoming the plant's next OSHA recordable. iFactory's Contractor Qualification & Access makes every contractor auditable from qualification through checkout.
iFactory Contractor Qualification & Access
Qualify, Onboard, and Monitor Every Contractor on Site
Verify insurance, training, and permits before work starts. Track contractors from prequalification through daily access to on-site work — no unqualified worker slips through.
Insurance
verified before access
Training
checked per worker
Permits
tied to qualification
Where Contractor Risk Actually Enters the Site
Contractor incidents tend to trace back to the same failures — a certificate that had expired, a permit issued without checking qualification, or a subcontractor no one knew was on the property.
Paper Prequalification
"Wait — is this contractor even approved to work here?"
Certificates faxed and filed, never re-checked
No live view of who's qualified for what
Permits issued without checking training records
Subcontractors on site with no oversight
Live Qualification
"Every contractor's status is live at the gate."
Insurance and training verified and dated per contractor
Prequalification status live on every access decision
Permits blocked when qualification lapses
Subcontractors tracked to the primary and to the task
The Contractor Risk Domains
Contractor safety is not one thing — it's a chain of checks from before the contract is signed to after the last worker leaves. iFactory covers every link.
Insurance
General liability, workers comp, auto, umbrella coverage verified and dated before access, re-checked at expiration.
Domain: coverage current
Safety Program
Written safety program reviewed, EMR and TRIR reviewed, incident history reviewed against site standards.
Domain: program review
Worker Training
Individual worker training and certifications verified per person, per task — not just per company.
Domain: per-worker
Permits
Hot work, confined space, energized-work permits linked to the contractor's current qualification status.
Domain: permit-tied
On-Site Monitoring
Access logging, contractor incidents recorded against the contractor and the primary, daily on-site presence tracked.
Domain: while on-site
What the System Actually Does
The value is not a database of certificates. It's enforcement at the moment the contractor tries to enter, take a permit, or start a task.
Prequalify
Prequalification workflow with insurance, safety program, and history captured, verified, and dated per contractor.
Onboard
Site-specific orientation delivered and tracked per worker, tied to the contractor's qualification record.
Authorize
Permit and access decisions gated by live qualification status — expired anything blocks the transaction.
Monitor
On-site presence, incidents, and any subcontractor activity logged against the primary contractor and the site.
What Live Qualification Delivers
When contractor qualification is live and enforced at the point of decision, third-party risk stops being the gap in the plant's safety program and becomes just another controlled workflow.
Fewer
Contractor incidents
unqualified workers blocked
Zero
Expired coverage
alerts fire before lapse
Every
Access decision
gated by live status
One
Contractor record
qualification to checkout
Want every contractor at your gate qualified before they enter? Book a demo — we'll show live qualification on a real access decision.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this replace ISNetworld or Avetta?
It's not either/or. Prequalification platforms like ISNetworld and Avetta collect and score contractor data across many hiring clients. iFactory takes that qualification data and enforces it at the plant — at the gate, on the permit, and during the task. Both pieces matter, and they can coexist.
Does it check individual worker training, not just company-level?
Yes. Company-level qualification tells you the contractor has a safety program; worker-level tells you the specific person walking into a confined space has current confined-space training. iFactory tracks both, and permits are gated on the worker's certifications, not just the contractor's status.
Can it block a permit if qualification lapses?
Yes — and that's the point. If a contractor's general liability expired yesterday or a worker's hot-work training lapsed last week, the permit workflow refuses to issue until the gap is closed. The system enforces the qualification instead of leaving it to the permit issuer to remember.
How does it handle subcontractors?
Subcontractors are logged against the primary contractor and against the task, so on-site presence stays visible even when the primary brings in specialty crews. Every worker on the property, employee or contractor or sub, ties back to a qualification record.
Book a demo to see the sub-tracking on a live task.
Can we start with one site or one contractor category?
Yes. Many operations start with a single site or with one contractor category such as hot-work or turnaround contractors, prove the workflow there, then extend across categories and sites. Book a demo and we'll scope the starting point around your operation.
Stop hoping contractors are qualified. Verify at the gate.
See Live Contractor Qualification at Your Own Site
Bring your current contractor list and one high-hazard permit type. We'll show qualification live at the access decision, permits gated on real status, and every worker traced back to a qualification record.
