Mining
Industries / Mining

One expired contractor certificate can stop the whole shift.

Operations, contractors and EHS teams. Safety documentation, contractor liability files and environmental permits arrive from six companies at once, and the inspector only asks for the one you can’t find.

90 min → 4m
per contractor entry check
100%
of contractor files verified
0
shifts stopped for paperwork
24/7
gate and site intake
AI for contractor files, permits and inspection packs

Documents, clearances and shifts that turn on paperwork.

Most of the documents that decide whether a shift starts were written by companies that don’t work for you. They arrive at a gate at half past five in the morning, in forty-two different formats, and the only person checking them has a queue behind him. Our core employees verify them before the gate opens and refuse what isn’t current with the reason attached — because a refusal at the gate costs less than a finding in an audit.

What arrives, and how

Contractor policies, training records, permits and monitoring reports, from dozens of companies at once.

What we do with it

Verify against what the authority will actually ask for, refuse with the reason on the record, and track what expires next.

What never leaves your people

Clearing a contractor, signing a permit to work, closing a finding.

The artifact

The shift clearance matrix, exactly as Maya filed it.

Every line carries the check that produced it, and anything held stays visible with its reason attached. Structure and logic from a live deployment; values changed.

ConsoleTue 24 Jun 15:38
Maya — shift clearance · 05:30 · 118 workers
MayaHuman resourcesSafety lead review
Shift clearance · 05:30 · 118 workers2held for a person
Crew 4 · 22 operatorsHeight-work certification currentClear
L. Mendoza · blastingExplosives handling permit expired 2 days agoRefused
Servicios Eléctricos MXContractor training records · 2 of 9 missingPartial
Crew 7 · 18 operatorsAnnual medical clearance in 26 days · renewals bookedTracking
96 othersComplete and currentClear
Supervisor note · WhatsApp · 05:34

«El permiso de Mendoza ya se renovó el viernes, nomás no nos han mandado el PDF firmado.»

Maya’s decision

Maya accepts that the renewal probably exists and still keeps him off the shift, because the signed document is what the authority will ask for. She books the two outstanding contractor records and the eighteen medicals in the same pass — nobody is cleared on an assurance.

clearance C2-0f9 · closed 06:02 by A. Ruvalcaba, Site Safety Lead1 refusal upheld · 1 cleared when the PDF arrived · 18 medicals bookedFull audit trail →
The stack it runs on

Inside your ERP and your EHS system — not beside them.

The gate keeps working the way the gate works. Contractors send documents to the same number they always did, and the refusal is on the record with a reason attached.

Systems

Connected on the systems you already run

SAPOracleEHS systemsWhatsApp BusinessFleet managementSharePoint+ any system with an API
Regulatory

Built against the rules you’re audited on

STPS mining safety (MX)MSHA compliance (US)Environmental permitsContractor liability documentationExplosives handling records+ any rule you’re audited on

Your checklist is the source of truth, not ours. When a rule moves and the checklist doesn’t, your compliance lead gets told.

A day on the site

Most of it happens before the first blast.

One Tuesday from a live deployment, reconstructed from the audit log. Times are local.

05:30

Sara checks 42 contractor companies at the gate — four refusals, each with the document named.

07:15

Maya flags two height-work certifications on your own crew expiring inside the month.

09:40

Atlas reports a critical spare below its reorder point with a six-week lead time.

13:05

Alex chases four contractor offices for the documents Sara refused at 05:30.

16:20

Sara assembles the quarterly environmental monitoring pack — 212 records, filed.

23:50

Atlas answers a night-shift question about which pump is available in the warehouse.

Rough estimate

An estimate you can check, not a quote.

Every assumption is written underneath. If one of them is wrong for your operation, the number is wrong — tell us and we’ll run it on your real volumes during the diagnostic.

Your volume

How many contractor and safety documents does the site process in a month?

1,050
documents / month
505,000+
Hours reclaimed
1,339
hours a month back with the safety team
16,065
hours a year
8.4
full-time equivalent
Assumptions
90 min of manual verification per document today15% still need a full human pass160 hours per full-time monthHours reclaimed, not headcount removed
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In production

An open-pit operation with forty-two contractor companies.

Company name withheld under NDA. Numbers verified by their own internal audit six months after go-live.

Before

Contractor documentation was checked by hand at the gate, which meant it was checked quickly. Two findings in the previous audit were for documents that existed but couldn’t be produced, and one shift had been stopped for a lapsed permit.

After

Maya tracks every clearance and certification to expiry while Sara verifies contractor documents before the gate opens, refuses what isn’t current with the reason on the record, and assembles the inspection pack from what she has already checked. No shift has been stopped for paperwork since.

90 min → 4m
per entry check
100%
files verified
0
shifts stopped
≈ 3 mo
to full operation
Start with a diagnostic

Two weeks at your gate, on your real contractor files.

Someone from our forward-deployment team works the entry check by hand, maps the exposure across your contractor base, and shows you exactly where this fits. No commitment either way.

No commitment · 2-week diagnostic · clear proposal