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AI-Powered VOC Assessment

Automated
VOC at scale.

Forge automates Verification of Competency assessments for industrial operators — generating a legally defensible evidence trail in real time, without a human assessor watching every worker one at a time.

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80%
reduction in assessment cost at scale
30×
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WorkSafe-ready records on every assessment
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What Is VOC

Qualified then.
Competent now.

Verification of Competency is a formal process used across Australian and New Zealand workplaces to verify that a worker is currently competent to perform a specific task or operate a specific piece of equipment — not when they were last assessed. Right now, on this site, with this equipment.

Skills decay.
Competency at qualification does not equal competency today — especially if skills haven't been regularly applied.
Sites vary.
New equipment. New site. New VOC required — every time. A Caterpillar 793 VOC doesn't cover a Komatsu 930E.
It's personal.
PCBU directors carry individual prosecution risk under WHS Act 2012. Not just the organisation — you, personally.
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The Problem

Manual VOC is slow, expensive, and completely unscalable.

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One Human. One Worker. At a Time.
The current process requires one qualified assessor to physically watch one worker complete a task — for up to four hours per assessment. That is an assessor bottleneck that never clears. No parallelism. No scale. Just a growing queue.
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The Bill Never Stops Growing.
At $200–$500 per external assessment, a mid-size industrial operator running thousands of annual verifications can approach $1 million in assessment fees alone — before counting the productive hours lost while workers wait to be observed.
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Every New Site. Every New Contract.
VOC requirements compound with every new client contract, every new equipment type, every new site. A 35,000-person infrastructure business can carry 20+ distinct VOC categories — with mandatory renewal every one to five years. Permanent overhead, permanently growing.
"If sufficient records cannot be produced during a WorkSafe inspection, regulators may assume training was not provided — increasing risk of enforcement action and prosecution."
WHS Act 2012 Compliance Framework
2-4 hours
per assessment — pulled off productive work
$200–$500
per external VOC assessment
1–5 years
mandatory record retention under WHS Act
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The Solution

Forge's AI watches, marks, and generates the evidence trail.

Forge replaces the manual VOC assessment process with AI-conducted, real-time task observation.

A worker performs the task. Forge watches via phone camera or Meta Glasses, marks each checklist item as completed or missed, and generates a timestamped evidence package — video record, pass/fail assessment, and a WHS-compliant PDF summary.

For company-internal VOC, Forge conducts the assessment end-to-end. No assessor bottleneck. No backlog. No queue. Limitless workers assessed simultaneously, each with an individual evidence record.

The evidence trail Forge generates is objectively stronger than a human assessor with a clipboard — timestamped, consistent, immediately retrievable, and undeniable in a legal proceeding.

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The Framework

Two categories of VOC.
Forge operates across both.

Category 01
High Risk Work Licence VOC
Forklift · Crane · EWP · Scaffolding · Dogging · Rigging
For High Risk Work licences, a qualified human assessor must be part of the process. Forge doesn't change that — it makes that assessor exponentially more effective.

Forge watches every worker simultaneously, capturing timestamped video evidence and marking each task against the checklist. The qualified assessor reviews AI-generated evidence and signs off. One assessor. Thirty workers. Same legal compliance.
AI-Assisted + Human Sign-Off
Category 02
Standard VOC
Trailers · Confined spaces · Working at heights · Equipment checks
For any task or equipment not covered by a High Risk Work Licence class, no licensed human assessor is legally required. The WHS obligation is to document and evidence competency — not to specify how the assessment is conducted.

Forge conducts these assessments end-to-end. AI watches the task, marks against the checklist, generates the evidence package. No human bottleneck.
Full AI Automation
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How It Works

From task start to evidence package — no human assessor required.

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Define the criteria
Forge loads your assessment checklist for the task. Criteria is mapped to WHS and industry standards. Zero setup for standard categories.
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Worker performs the task
The worker completes the task as normal — using a positioned smartphone, worn camera, or Meta Glasses.
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Forge observes in real time
AI watches the task execution, identifies each checklist item as completed or missed, and flags deviations as they occur.
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Evidence package generated
Timestamped video, AI assessment report with line-by-line pass/fail, and a standardised PDF summary meeting WHS requirements — automatic.
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Record pushed to your system
The completed record integrates with your existing platform — MyPass, Pegasus, SAP, SharePoint, or custom via API.
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The Evidence Advantage

The strongest possible record in a WorkSafe investigation is not a human's handwritten notes.

Criteria Human Assessor Forge AI Assessment
Evidence Type Handwritten notes, memory-dependent Timestamped video of every moment
Consistency Varies by assessor fatigue and attention Identical criteria applied every time
Record Creation Manual paperwork — can be lost or incomplete Automatic at moment of assessment
Audit Readiness Variable — often in a folder somewhere Instant retrieval, always complete
Legal Defensibility Easily challenged in proceedings Video is the strongest possible record
Scalability 1 assessor · 1 worker · sequential 1 reviewer · unlimited workers · simultaneous
Cost Per Assessment $100–$500 loaded assessor cost Fraction of manual cost at scale
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Industries

If your industry has VOC requirements, Forge has a category for it.

Mining
Haul truck · Excavator · LHD · Drill rig · Confined space
Construction
Forklift · EWP · Crane · Heights · Confined space
Utilities & Energy
HV switching · Confined space · Heights · Water treatment
Transport & Logistics
Trailer coupling · Forklift · DG handling · Heavy vehicle
Oil & Gas
PTW · H2S awareness · ESD · Pressure vessel
Rail
PTS protection · Overhead wiring · Train driver VOC
Manufacturing
Overhead crane · Confined space · Hazardous chemical
Aviation
Airside vehicle · Ground handling · Aircraft refuelling

55+ VOC task categories mapped across all industries. VOC requirements compound with every new client contract, site, and equipment type.

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See Forge assess a live task in under 20 minutes.

We'll demo AI-conducted VOC assessment on a real task from your industry and show you the evidence package it generates in real time.

No setup required · Evidence package demo included · 20-minute session
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