LUMA1 Atlas Release: Subcontractor & Contingent Worker Readiness, Simplified

Why subcontractor and contingent worker readiness breaks down on real sites

Workforce readiness is the rule - but on most sites, subcontractor and contingent worker readiness still gets managed like a patchwork. Credentials live in email threads. Training is split across tools. Site rules are passed around as PDFs. And when someone asks, “Is this worker cleared right now?” the answer too often depends on who happens to be available to check.

That’s not just inconvenient. It creates delays at the gate, inconsistent enforcement, and avoidable risk—because readiness isn’t being run as a system. It’s being managed as a series of workarounds.

Readiness that travels with the worker

Subcontractor and contingent workers move constantly—between employers, projects, and sites—yet they’re repeatedly forced to start over. The same documents get uploaded again and again. The same baseline orientations get re-administered. Supervisors spend time chasing proof instead of running the job.

This release rebuilds the model around a portable worker record: a single source of truth that follows the worker across employment changes, capturing credential uploads and tracking, safety orientations, site-specific training, and any access constraints that apply.

Clearance you can enforce (including restrictions)

Portability only matters if readiness is enforceable. So we expanded contractor support and management to fully include restrictions as part of the core workflow—not as an afterthought handled in side conversations.

The point isn’t to add friction. It’s to eliminate the messy “exceptions” that happen outside the system and quietly become risk. When restrictions are managed properly, readiness stops being a vague status and becomes a clear, defensible answer: cleared or not cleared—based on the rules that apply today.

In-person session support and multilingual delivery, built in

Readiness isn’t always self-paced. Many sites depend on live sessions - briefings, orientations, assessments - where the proof of attendance and completion is just as important as the session itself. With live event support now covering rostering, attendance, and assessments, those moments become part of the readiness record instead of another parallel process you have to document manually later.

And because real sites are multilingual, we enhanced Smart Fit so video based training can be translated and voiced over in more than 70 languages and is seamless. That means the content can actually land the way it’s intended—without slowing down delivery, and without relying on ad-hoc translation that introduces inconsistency.

The impact: 76% less admin, 50% faster onboarding

When you put these changes together, the day-to-day experience on site changes in a very practical way. Supervisors spend dramatically less time administering readiness—less chasing, less presenting, less reconciling—because the system carries the record and the proof.

In early deployments, teams have reduced site admin time by up to 76% and cut onboarding time by up to 50% by removing repeated uploads, duplicated training, and manual verification workflows. Subcontractor and contingent workers get a simpler experience—upload once, stop repeating the same process every time their employment context changes. And the business gains something that scales: readiness that can be enforced, proven, and operated consistently across sites as volumes grow.

That’s the intent of this release: not “more features,” but a better operating model for contractor and contingent worker readiness—portable, enforceable, and ready for the way work actually gets done.

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