HammerTech is a construction safety platform. Arkvos is a safety briefing attendance verification tool. Those are not the same product, and for a number of buyers HammerTech is the correct choice. This page explains the actual difference so you can tell quickly which side of it you are on.
Enterprise construction safety breadth. HammerTech covers orientations, permits, inspections, equipment registers, and subcontractor prequalification, and is well established with large general contractors.
HammerTech is a broad platform bought at the enterprise level with an implementation process. Arkvos is a single-purpose verification tool that a supervisor can start using the same afternoon with no rollout project. The scopes are genuinely different — HammerTech is a safety management system, Arkvos is an evidence layer for briefing attendance.
HammerTech uses enterprise, quote-based, typically annual. Arkvos Office is $89 per month, Team is $149, and Organization is $249. Every Arkvos plan includes unlimited participants and check-ins; operator and Place capacity determines the tier. Compare the total tier that fits your operating footprint against HammerTech's billing unit.
Choose HammerTech if you are a large GC needing site orientations, permit-to-work, equipment registers, and prequalification in one system, and you have the resources for an enterprise implementation.
Choose Arkvos if you need verified briefing attendance running this week without a procurement cycle, or if you already have a safety management system and the gap is specifically evidentiary strength on attendance.
Arkvos is not a full EHS suite. It does not manage incident investigations, corrective action workflows, chemical inventories, ergonomics assessments, or sustainability reporting. It documents that a specific worker attended a specific safety briefing at a specific place and time, and produces an audit package proving it. If you need a broad platform, buy one — and if attendance evidence is the gap in it, add this underneath.
Usually not. HammerTech is a construction safety platform; Arkvos verifies safety briefing attendance. Many companies run both. Replacement makes sense only if attendance documentation was the main reason you were evaluating HammerTech in the first place.
HammerTech uses enterprise, quote-based, typically annual. Arkvos plans are $89, $149, and $249 per month with unlimited participants and check-ins; operator and Place capacity determines the tier. Compare the Arkvos tier you need against HammerTech's total bill for your roster.
That a specific individual was physically present. A signature or a form submission records that data was entered. Arkvos captures a live photo and GPS coordinates inside a jobsite geofence, sealed with a record-integrity hash at the moment of capture, so later modification is detectable.
Yes, and many companies do. HammerTech handles its scope; Arkvos supplies the attendance evidence layer. Arkvos also pushes records into Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud where those are connected.
A supervisor can run a verified briefing the same day. Workers scan a QR code in their phone browser — no app install, no device provisioning, no implementation project.
Arkvos offers a free OSHA citation response generator. Upload the citation and get a formal response letter, a corrective action plan with dates, and a checklist of evidence to attach. Employers have 15 working days from receipt of a citation to contest it. Open the free citation responder.
Arkvos separates product capabilities from regulatory requirements. For federal OSHA requirements, the primary authority is OSHA's current regulations and guidance. California construction employers should also review the applicable Cal/OSHA Title 8 requirements.
OSHA 29 CFR 1904.33 requires the OSHA 300 Log, annual summary, OSHA 301 Incident Report forms, and privacy case list if one exists to be retained for five years after the end of the calendar year they cover. Cal/OSHA Title 8 §1509(e) requires construction supervisors to conduct toolbox or tailgate safety meetings, or equivalent, with crews at least every 10 working days. Requirements vary by jurisdiction and work activity, so employers should verify the rule that applies to their facts.
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