The PCBU Enterprise platform connects with Onside’s mobile app, which supports on-farm biosecurity, digital visitor management, geospatial property mapping, health and safety compliance and contractor management.
Agri-tech company Onside has launched PCBU Enterprise, an industry-first digital platform designed to revolutionise shared safety management across agriculture supply chains in Australia and New Zealand.
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Developed in partnership with ANZCO Foods, PCBU Enterprise addresses longstanding challenges related to joint safety responsibilities across the supply chain between enterprises, contractors, suppliers and transport operators.
The new platform offers a multi-party safety and risk network, enabling agribusinesses to collaboratively manage shared risk and map joint responsibility areas with their suppliers and contractors – allowing real-time communication, accurate compliance records, and inter-business risk reports.
PCBU Enterprise integrates with Onside’s mobile app for rural risk management, which has already mapped more than 21,000 rural properties across New Zealand and Australia, logging millions of movements collected from contractor and visitor check-ins to properties, as well as machinery and plant movements.
This data helps users easily manage health and safety, compliance, and biosecurity risks.
Onside chief executive Ryan Higgs says PCBU Enterprise is his company’s biggest and most ambitious agri risk and safety product.
Onside chief executive Ryan Higgs says PCBU Enterprise is his company’s biggest and most ambitious agri risk and safety product.
“It sets a new standard for safety outcomes by ensuring enterprises, contractors, and suppliers share a transparent system that leaves nothing to chance when it comes to safety and shared risks,” Ryan says.
Almost two years ago, Onside partnered with ANZCO to tackle a complex problem the industry has been wrestling with: ‘how to manage safety duties when it doesn’t neatly follow fence lines, but instead follows the supply chain’.
“Loading yards, accessways, trucks, plants, paddocks, runways, irrigation trenches – anywhere operations intersect is where things can go wrong,” Ryan says.
“You can’t hide behind organisational layers when safety fails,” he says.
“With PCBU Enterprise, we’re making WorkSafe’s 3Cs – consult, cooperate, coordinate – applicable across multiple PCBUs.
“This clarity ensures everyone knows who’s managing risk, creating a safer and more efficient supply chain.
“ANZCO took the initiative, deciding it wasn’t good enough to wait for someone else to figure it out. The result is we’ve created what we believe is a world-first agri enterprise solution which will improve safety outcomes across the sector.”
Ryan says he believes the solution could not be timelier.
“Recent high-profile safety incidents, including significant fines against senior executives for PCBUs (persons conducting a business or undertaking) breaching worker safety and health legislation, have reinforced the need for clear and coordinated safety management practices across the agricultural sector,” he adds.
Onside’s PCBU Enterprise solution is now available in New Zealand and Australia, offering agribusinesses the opportunity to adopt a proactive, unified approach to safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
