Construction & Development
Security for Construction & Development Sites
Stop copper, tool and plant theft before it pushes your program back weeks. Gate control through the day, guards or randomised patrols overnight, and White Card officers who can work your site from the first shift.
- Labour Hire Licensed Victorian Labour Hire Authority
- Victoria Police Licensed Private security licence (LRD)
- WorkSafe Insured Workers compensation cover in place
- Public Liability Insured Certificate of currency available on request
- ASIAL Member Australian Security Industry Association
The short answer
Why do building sites lose so much, so predictably?
A building site is the only commercial property deliberately left open, half-finished and full of portable, resaleable material. Losses cluster in the first hours after the last trade leaves, and across long weekends and the Christmas shutdown, when a site can sit unattended for ten days.
Which arrangement suits which stage of the build
| Site establishment | Low, intermittent risk — mobile patrols only |
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| Structure | Plant and formwork on site — overnight cover or frequent patrols |
| Lock-up | Peak risk — an overnight static guard |
| Fit-out | High-value fixtures, many trades — gatehouse by day, static by night |
| Handover | Risk falling — back to patrols |
| Shutdown | The highest-risk window of the year — increase patrol frequency |
What goes wrong on these sites
What your insurer will ask for after a theft
4 findings
What goes first is whatever converts to cash without a receipt: cable off the reel, hand tools, a generator, fuel siphoned out of plant. Increasingly it is the GPS unit and the batteries out of machinery, which are small, unmarked and worth more than the tools beside them.
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Proof the site was attended
Time-stamped records showing officers were there, at what times. “We had a guard” is not evidence.
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Incident reports written on the night
Not reconstructed a week later from memory, which is easily challenged.
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Photographs of the entry point
The point of entry and the damage, taken before anything is moved or repaired.
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A record of who was notified, when
Including whether police attended and what was handed to them.
Not sure which of these apply to your construction site?
We will walk the site at lock-up, work these findings against your program and your existing fencing and lighting, and put the result in writing with a fixed price. If the honest answer is patrols rather than a guard, that is what the quote will say.
What we do about it
Inductions, White Cards and your site rules
The stolen compressor is the small number. The real cost is the trade that cannot start Monday, the hire replacement at short notice, the excess, and the premium at renewal. On a programmed build, a two-day delay to one trade moves every trade behind it.
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Inducted before the first shift
Our officers complete your site induction before they start, not on the morning of.
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Construction Induction Card
Officers hold a White Card, which is what lets them be inducted and work inside the site boundary.
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Working to your SWMS
Officers work to your safe work method statements and site rules, like any other trade on site.
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Additional tickets on request
If your principal contractor requires more, tell us at quote stage — we will not send someone who cannot lawfully be on your site.
Where to start
Services for construction & development
Most construction contracts combine two of these. The label beside each one is where sites in this sector usually start.
All services- Core cover Construction Site Security Gate control while the trades are on site, guarding once they leave, by officers who already hold a Construction Induction Card. View service
- Pairs with it Static Guard Services Once plant and loose materials are on the ground, a fixed overnight post beats a vehicle that visits four times. View service
- Add if needed Mobile Patrol Security For sites past lock-up, where the building is closed and the remaining risk is the compound rather than the levels. View service
Questions we get asked
Construction & Development security FAQs
Still deciding? Call +61 413 519 922 and we will tell you what a site like yours usually runs.
Yes. Friday evening to Monday morning is the standard weekend package, because that is the highest-risk window on most sites.
Yes, without exception. Every officer deployed to a construction site holds a current Construction Induction Card and is inducted to your site before commencing.
Yes. We can monitor and respond to client-supplied temporary CCTV as part of the guarding brief.
Check your policy wording — some construction policies price on the security measures declared, and a few make specific measures a condition of cover for plant or materials above a value. Telling your broker what is in place can move the premium, and it avoids the argument after a loss about whether the site was secured as represented. Either way, keep the shift records: an insurer assessing a claim asks what was in place and wants dated evidence, not a description.
Construction & Development security across Melbourne & Victoria
Officers travel to your site from our Williams Landing base, and we roster the same people back to your site rather than a different face each week. Travel is quoted separately and up front.
Get a written quote for construction & development
Send the site address, the stage the build is at, and the hours the site sits empty. You get a written scope with the shift pattern and a fixed price back — and a separate line for the Christmas shutdown, because that is when most of the loss happens.
- Licensed and insured Every officer individually licensed under the Victorian Private Security Act, with public liability and workers compensation in place.
- Inducted before the first shift White Card officers who complete your induction and work to your SWMS, rather than turning up at the gate on the morning and waiting.
- Evidence your insurer will accept Time-stamped attendance, incident reports written on the night, and photographs of the entry point — the things asked for after a claim.