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Industry association launching end-to-end contractor platform

APSCo Australia is soon launching a contractor onboarding and management platform to help reduce recruiters' compliance risks, and hopes it will ultimately lower insurance premiums.

The cloud-based platform will be a "touchpoint for both contractors and clients to be able to complete tasks or relay information", and also house a learning and development library, says APSCo managing director Lesley Horsburgh.

Dubbed APSCo Protect 360 and set to launch in August, it is a joint venture with Gallagher Workplace Risk and has been developed with input from APSCo partners WorkPro and Vincere (it already integrates with the latter ATS, with further integrations planned).

Five APSCo members of various sizes have been part of a pilot program this year to "make sure it does everything we want it to do, and that it speaks in a language that contractors, clients and consultants will understand", Horsburgh says...