Free NZ Contractor Prequalification Readiness Checklist

New: Contractor Prequalification & Tender Readiness learning hub — understand evidence requests, overlapping PCBU duties and scheme limitations.

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1. Your risk-management evidence

Show what you actually do to identify and manage the risks in your work.

Current risk / hazard information

A register, assessment or other usable record showing key work risks and controls.

Evidence for high-risk or critical work

Relevant planning, permits, assessments, procedures or other records for the high-risk work you perform.

Plant, equipment or substance controls

Where relevant: maintenance, inspection, SDS, certification or other evidence that supports safe use.

2. Your people evidence

Be able to demonstrate that the people doing the work have suitable capability and support.

Training and competency records

Qualifications, licences, training, competency checks or experience records relevant to the work.

Induction / information / supervision records

Evidence showing how workers receive the information, instruction and supervision they need.

Worker engagement evidence

For example toolbox records, meeting notes, consultation records or worker-raised issues and actions.

3. Contractor and site coordination

Useful where you work with clients, principal contractors, subcontractors or other PCBUs.

How you coordinate with other businesses

A practical way to communicate risks, responsibilities, changes and controls on shared work.

Subcontractor capability evidence

If you use subcontractors, records showing how you select, brief, coordinate and monitor them.

Site / job-specific planning evidence

Where appropriate, evidence that your generic systems are translated into the actual job and site.

4. Performance and improvement evidence

Blank forms are not the whole story. Completed records help show that your system is actually used.

Incident and near-miss records

A record of events and how significant events are investigated and learned from.

Actions, inspections and review records

Evidence that issues are followed through, controls are checked and the system is reviewed.

An evidence index

One place showing what evidence exists, where it is stored, who owns it and when it was last reviewed.

Complete the checklist using evidence you can actually produce.

This is a readiness tool, not a compliance or prequalification score. Different clients and jobs can ask for different information.

See WorkSafe contractor guidance ↗

Next step · optional paid pack

Missing evidence or struggling to keep it organised?

The NZ Contractor Ready Pack is being built around the practical records small contractors need to organise — including an evidence index, risk and action tools, training records, worker engagement records, incident records, subcontractor coordination and a setup guide.

Launch price: NZ$79 one-off.

See the Contractor Ready Pack →

Not certification, accreditation, legal advice or a guarantee that a client will approve a tender or prequalification submission.