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Manager faces $300k fine and/or Jail term after safety breach
The death of a Worker on a construction site has resulted in SafeWork ACT laying charges of reckless conduct against the Employer (company) and a manager under the Work Health and Safety Act. The 21 year old worker was killed when a concrete boom collapsed on him on a work site in ACT. The NSW…
Read MoreHow to share Plans & Specifications with Trades
With SiteBook, It’s easy to share the latest version of Plans and Specifications for a Job, with your trades ( or subcontractors). Here is how: [mt_clear padding=”40″] [mt_lineheader size=”2″ align=”left”] 1. Upload the Plans and Specifications [/mt_lineheader] From the Main Menu (Click on the SiteBook logo to get to the main menu): 1. Select Work…
Read MoreHow to Prepare Your Subcontractor Agreement Template
You can manage subcontractor agreements using SiteBook, making it easy to “generate” an agreement for a specific contractor with Business Name & Date inserted automatically, then email a copy to the contractor, collect signed copy from the contractor, then review & approve the Agreement. Here is how to prepare the document: [mt_lineheader size=”3″ align=”left”] 1.…
Read MoreRemoving a Work Site from the Site List
In SiteBook, you can set the status of a work site to in-active, and it will disappear from the Site List page. 1. Main Menu => Site List => click on site name => Update Site Information. 2. Un-check the Active checkbox (see picture blow) 3. Save you change by clicking “Site Page”.
Read MoreHow to improve Your email delivery rate
Emails sent from SiteBook on your behalf, generally do not end up in the recipients “Junk Mail”, because we go to great lengths to make sure we abide by the email delivery rules & standards. However if you change the “Email From” in a template from the default “mail@sitebook.com.au” to your email address, then that…
Read MoreHow to send emails “from” your email address
You can setup SiteBook to so that emails appear to be sent from your email address @ your company domain name. The benefits are that you will receive any out-of-office replies, and any notification of undeliverable emails, (usually due to an incorrect email address) so you can fix and resend the email. By default, emails…
Read MoreContractor Business Name Check
We have just added a new feature to automatically check the registered business name of your subcontractors , based on the ABN they supplied. Recent changes to Tax reporting requirements mean that builders must to supply all subcontractor payments to the tax office, including the registered business name of the payee ( not the trading name! ) SiteBook…
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