Check your subbies’ insurance before they are on your site
If a subcontractor’s public liability has lapsed, it is your problem the moment something happens. Gaffer holds each subcontractor’s insurers, cover limits and expiry dates alongside their health and safety policy status — so the check happens before the job, not after the incident.
Part of compliance & certificates in Gaffer, which replaces carbonless pads, a filing cabinet and a scanner.
913 certificates and forms, filled on site, filed for good.
Gas Safety, EICR, Minor Works, LOLER, F-Gas, FENSA and hundreds more — trade-specific, signed on the device, emailed to the customer as a PDF and tracked to their expiry date.
Nothing is lost, nothing is illegible, and every renewal comes back to you as work.
Subcontractor compliance is one of the 14 things in compliance & certificates. See the rest →
- Public liability insurer, cover limit and expiry date
- Employers liability insurer and expiry date
- Health and safety policy held and last reviewed date
- Compliance status visible per subcontractor
- Expiries surfaced alongside your own certificate alerts
- Works with the subcontractor portal and CIS deductions
Step 04 of the job: on site
The engineer taps “On my way” and the customer gets a text with an arrival window. On site: clock in, photos, the certificate for the job — EICR, Gas Safety, whatever the trade needs — signed on the device. No signal? It syncs later.
Compliance & Certificates is where subcontractor compliance sits, and that is the step it shows up in most. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →
What is subcontractor compliance for?
If a subcontractor’s public liability has lapsed, it is your problem the moment something happens. Gaffer holds each subcontractor’s insurers, cover limits and expiry dates alongside their health and safety policy status — so the check happens before the job, not after the incident. If a subcontractor’s public liability has lapsed, it is your problem the moment something happens.
Are the certificates acceptable to landlords and inspectors?
They carry the fields the schemes expect, your registration numbers, the date, the engineer and a signature, and they go out as a branded PDF. Whether a scheme requires its own branded form is worth checking for your trade before you switch.
What happens when a certificate is about to expire?
It surfaces before it lapses, not after. You get the alert, and the customer can get a text with a booking link — which is how last year’s compliance turns into this year’s work.
Which plan is it on?
Every paid plan. Subcontractor compliance is included for unlimited users at no extra cost — the monthly, annual and lifetime plans differ only in how you pay.
The rest of Compliance & Certificates
All 14 →- 30 UK accreditation schemes, with what each one actually requires
- Know which building regs jobs still lack certificates
- Turn expiring certificates into booked work
- Combustion analysis recorded with the analyser’s serial number
- Gas Safety, EICR and LOLER in one register
- Every DBS check, with the date it lapses
- Signed on site, with the name and timestamp
- EICRs coded C1 to FI, with remedials priced
- Build your own certificates with your own fields
- Landlord gas safety records signed and emailed on site
Put subcontractor compliance to work.
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