Construction - Principal Contractors

Construction is a key industry to which Compliance Council excel.

We work with a wide range of construction firms in commercial, civil, and residential construction industries.

Principal contractors often engage Compliance Council to assist with their ISO certification and management system journey due to:

  • Meeting a tender or procurement requirement for government work.
  • A need to review their existing legacy management system that is outdated and is no longer fit for purpose.
  • Assist with the implementation of management system platforms such as Procore, Assignar, HammerTech, 1BreadCrumb and other similar platforms.
  • A need to improve quality management within their organisation.
  • A need to improve the management of health and safety of their workers, and to meet legal and compliance obligations.
  • Responding to enforceable undertakings, improvement notices or similar from safety regulators.
  • A need to improve their environmental management requirements including modern slavery, indigenous participation and other emerging Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) requirements.

Some key outcomes we often see when working with principal contractors are:

  • Clear processes for managing projects, from tender through to end of defect liability period.
  • Improved ability in onboarding and managing subcontractors, suppliers and consultants.
  • Improved design management process including interface management, consultant communication, Building Information Modelling (BIM) management.
  • Improved ability to determine and manage client, legal and other requirements relevant to the project.
  • Improving the ability for the organisation to scale.
  • Improving their quality assurance processes when managing tenders, construction and design.

Compliance Council can develop a bespoke management system for principal contractors that meet the requirements of:

  • ISO 45001:2018 - International Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.
  • ISO 14001:2015 - International Standard for Environmental Management Systems.
  • ISO 9001:2015 - International Standard for Quality Management Systems.
  • Office of Federal Safety Commissioner (OFSC).
  • Technically Assured Organisation (TAO) requirements.

Clients we've worked with:

  • Mirvac Constructions
  • Erilyan Group
  • Binah
  • H Built

Erilyan Case study

Brief

Erilyan Group are a leading commercial construction business who complete work in the $1m - $150m range. Erilyan have direct management projects totalling $600m, and a proven track record in successful project delivery and the ability to support clients and achieve their corporate objectives.

As a result of continual improvement, Erilyan adopted digital construction technology platforms Procore and HammerTech to digitise their service delivery and provide clear, consistent and reliable results to their clients. As a result of these changes, Erilyan identified the need to remap their Erilyan Management System to suit the processes and functions of these platforms.

A key measurement for success was the effective implementation of Procore, HammerTech, the digitisation of traditional Office based Word Documents and Excel Spreadsheets, and adherence to its requirements validated by internal and external audit activities.

Service

Compliance Council were engaged to assist deliver a remapped management system that meets the requirements of ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018, with processes and procedures updated to refer to Procore and HammerTech as necessary, as well as the review of all operational, support and management policies, processes and procedures to ensure they reflect work as done at Erilyan.

Subsequently, all forms, checklists and registers that were currently utilised via Word or Excel were to be digitised as an Inspection or other mechanism within each platform where relevant.

Compliance Council and Erilyan reviewed existing policies, processes and procedures via a process of determining which are currently applicable and reflective of organisational activities, which can be archived requiring a full review and overhaul, and where within existing and new elements of the management system Procore, HammerTech and other associated platforms are to be referred to.

Furthermore, Compliance Council developed a bespoke HSEQ Management Plan that refers to relevant platforms, whilst providing a consistent approach to HSEQ activities on site which benefits clients, subcontractors, consultants and other interested parties relevant to Erilyan projects.

Deliverable

A remapped management system reflective of work as done policies, processes and procedures, compliant to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, and consideration where relevant of management system applications such as Procore and HammerTech.

Implementation of new naming convention with documents identifiable as Erilyan Group own document, and to which business unit the document belongs to, allowing workers and stakeholders to understand the origin and relevance of the document quickly and easily.

Digitisation of forms, checklists and registers resulting in 30+ Word and Excel documents being archived (data entry to Procore and HammerTech not within scope).

Compliance Council continue to provide monthly Project Internal Audits for actives sites projects across NSW and Victoria, as well as internal audits on operational processes and procedures, risk management workshops, management system awareness training sessions and more.