Forge for turnarounds & field services

Big crews. Short windows. Zero paper.

A turnaround is won or lost in the first hour of every shift. Forge makes that hour frictionless: the toolbox-talk signature is the clock-in, gang sheets move a crew's hours in one entry, and the exceptions engine catches the bad time before it hits the client's invoice.

Built inside a multi-trade contractor working live plant sites in Sarnia's Chemical Valley — refinery, petrochemical, industrial.

SITE BOARD · UNIT 3 SHUTDOWN · DAY 0906:58
TBT 07:00 · "LINE BREAKS & BLINDS"118 SIGNED → CLOCKED IN
FLHA CARDS24 FILED · WX -2°C AUTO
OBSERVATIONS3 · 1 HIGH · SLA 48H
T&M-0412 · EXTRA WORKCLIENT SIGNED 16:40
SUB CREW · NDE VENDORTICKET IN · NO LOGIN
SHT 01 / 04 · TIME AT SCALEForge for turnarounds

One signature. Signed in, clocked in, safety done.

Workers sign the morning toolbox talk on the kiosk and that single signature is the site sign-in and the clock-in. No second line-up, no duplicate steps, no paper sheet to type up at night. At 600 heads, the minutes you save at the gate are a crew you get back.

  • Crew gang sheets. A foreman enters the whole crew's hours in one pass — same approval pipeline, one tenth the taps.
  • An exception engine that can't be bypassed. Over-12-hour days, duplicates, and hours with no site sign-in are recomputed on the server — "approve all" doesn't sneak them through.
  • Forgotten punches close themselves. A nightly motor catches open clocks so Monday doesn't start with time-card archaeology.
  • Phones, kiosks, and no-signal zones. Phone-first entry for the field, kiosk for the gate, offline forms where the plant kills the signal.
  • Approved time pushes to QuickBooks Online as time activities mapped to your QBO employees — payroll without re-keying.
Field task card on a phone
SHT 02 / 04 · SAFETY THAT KEEPS UPField-proven, not template-ware

The safety binder, retired by something crews actually use.

  • A JSA bank proven on live sites. Thirty-two task JSAs built on real industrial work, templated by site so one library serves every client without leaking names. The builder suggests hazards and controls by task.
  • A real risk matrix. 5×5 scoring, before and after controls, with drawn competent-person signatures.
  • Observations in 30 seconds. Near-miss, good catch, unsafe condition — with photos, GPS, an anonymous option, and a 48-hour response SLA on anything high or critical.
  • Certs that don't ambush you. Training and tickets on one expiry clock — WHMIS, first aid, confined space, trade tickets — flagged at 30/60/90 days, before the owner's gate check finds them.
  • Inspections, incidents and corrective actions in one system, with failed checklist items auto-raising corrective actions that need an effectiveness check to close.
CREW COMPLIANCE · UNIT 3 · 118 HEADSDAY 09
Site orientation118 / 118
Confined space entryEXPIRES 30D × 4
Fall arrestCURRENT
Open observations (high)1 · SLA 31H LEFT
Today's TBT + FLHAFILED · WX ATTACHED
GATE CHECK: READYWhen the owner's safety advisor asks, the answer is on the screen, not in a truck.
Crane lift on an industrial site

The six-week outlook sees the cliff coming.

Manpower projected by project, trade and company, six weeks out. When two jobs collide over the same eight pipefitters, you find out in a planning meeting — not on a Monday morning.

SHT 03 / 04 · THE CLIENT SIDEPaper trails that pay

Extra work, signed before the dust settles.

Out-of-contract work on a turnaround is money you either capture same-day or argue about in month three. Forge makes same-day the easy path.

  • T&M tickets — T&M tags, if that's your site's word — built at the truck: labour at your agreed ST/OT/DT rates, equipment, materials, photos, and the day's weather attached automatically.
  • The client signs on the spot, on your letterhead, from a token link that needs no login. Declines are captured too, so nothing dies in an inbox.
  • The daily log — manpower, progress, weather — filed from the field, and a monthly client summary drafted from it.
  • Sub crews — NDE vendors, scaffolders, vac trucks — submit their daily time from a phone with no login. You approve; it lands on job cost next to your own crews.
  • Signed tickets roll into claims and invoices without re-typing. The paper trail is the billing.
Grinding sparks during industrial work
SHT 04 / 04 · SCALE20 to 600

The same system on day one and on day 600-heads.

Nothing about Forge changes when the crew count explodes for a shutdown. Kiosks don't need accounts, token links don't need IT, and flat per-instance pricing means staffing up for the window doesn't ratchet your software bill. When the turnaround ends, the records stay — safety, time, tickets — on the job they belong to.

Run one crew through it.

Start with one crew on one site: morning TBT, gang-sheet hours, one T&M ticket signed by the client before quitting time. Then decide.

You'll talk to a contractor, not a sales rep. Built by contractors, for contractors.