Construction Site Management

Biometrics in Construction

The construction industry within the UK is the single largest employer with over 2.2 million employees. Whilst it is the biggest industry in the UK it suffers from a number of common issues that impact on profit margins: poor access control, litigation costs from construction health and safety violations, buddy punching and over charging from contractors.

Biometric Consultancy, Human Recognition Systems, has worked closely with some of the leading construction companies including Carillion, BAM, Sheppard and Morgan Ashurst to develop a construction site management system. The MSite solution uses biometrics to eliminate buddy punching and better enforce construction health & safety regulations.

Construction Site Management Issues

All of the major construction companies manage multi-million pound projects with a large number of stakeholders and construction site management must maintain adequate security levels. Access to most major sites generally uses a card based system and physical access to the sites are normally controlled by security officers who verify the credentials of each employee against his card and make a manual entry into the register.

The existing process means that gaining access to the construction site is a laborious process and when unsupervised, access using smart cards allows workers to clock in and out for each other at a significant cost to the construction companies. The large number of stakeholders make it difficult for construction site management to control access and know who is onsite and if they had the necessary credentials to be there. As a consequence there is a potential for site security to be compromised: unnecessary overheads due to litigation costs because of construction health and safety violations, buddy punching and incorrect payments to contractors.

Human Recognition Systems Solution

Human Recognition Systems commitment to developing innovative solutions resulted in the creation of MSite the construction site management system. MSite provides a focused solution that incorporates biometric access control with construction site management software. MSite allows project managers in the construction industry to run a number of necessary reports around construction health and safety requirements including CSCS Accreditation, incident reporting and muster reports.

Construction site management system, MSite, allows access by verifying the credentials of an employee against their biometric templates; either iris recognition, hand recognition or fingerprint recognition. Each transaction is recorded by the system and can generate reports with accurate information on the number of workers onsite at any time and the duration of stay. Detailed reports can be generated quickly for all workers, or split between employees and contractors. The construction site management solution offers significant cost benefits to the major construction companies and helps improve site management efficiency by providing required construction health & safety reports at the touch of a button.