Is this a full HR system?
It is the operational half — the records that determine whether someone can be sent to a job, and the compliance evidence a client audit asks for. It is not payroll, and it is not contract management.
Team & HR
HR records that sit with the compliance data they relate to
Your team's employment records and their compliance records are the same conversation, and they are usually in different places. Gaffer keeps staff details alongside their qualifications, training, DBS checks, health surveillance and holiday — so 'is this person able to do this job' is one lookup.
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How HR records work in Gaffer
One record per person, connected to everything else Gaffer already knows about them.
One person, one picture
Employment details, qualifications, training, DBS status, health surveillance and leave all hang off the same person record instead of four systems.
Compliance-aware
Because qualifications and training expiries live here too, scheduling someone onto regulated work can be gated on whether they are actually qualified.
Leave included
Holiday and leave requests are part of the same record, so availability and compliance are answered from one place.
What you get
HR records connect to qualifications, training, DBS records, health surveillance and holiday in one platform.
- Staff records held against the business with role and status
- Linked to the qualifications register and its expiry tracking
- Training records with mandatory-course flags per person
- DBS records with expiry where the role requires them
- Health surveillance outcomes and restrictions visible
- Holiday and leave requests with approval
- Feeds qualification gates so regulated work needs a qualified person
Common questions about hr records
How does this relate to qualification gates?
Directly. Because qualifications and their expiries are held per person, Gaffer can prevent regulated work being assigned to someone whose ticket has lapsed, rather than relying on a scheduler remembering.
Who can see HR records?
Access is controlled by Gaffer's granular role permissions, so HR and compliance data can be restricted to the people who should see it while engineers keep access to their own jobs.
Does holiday affect scheduling?
Approved leave is part of the same person record the scheduler works from, so availability reflects it rather than being tracked separately on a wall planner.
Put your people records in one place
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