Agri-tech company Onside has announced the launch of PCBU Enterprise, an industry-first digital platform to revolutionise shared safety management across Australian and New Zealand agriculture supply chains.
Developed in partnership with ANZCO Foods, one of New Zealand’s largest beef and lamb exporters, PCBU Enterprise addresses longstanding challenges related to joint safety responsibilities across the supply chain between enterprises, contractors, suppliers and transport operators.
The new platform provides a multi-party safety and risk network, enabling agribusinesses to collaboratively manage shared risks and identify joint responsibility areas with their suppliers and contractors. This allows for real-time communication, accurate compliance records, and inter-business risk reports.
PCBU Enterprise integrates with Onside’s mobile app for rural risk management, which has already mapped over 21,000 rural properties across New Zealand and Australia, logging millions of movements collected from contractor and visitor check-ins to properties, as well as machinery and plant movements. This data helps users easily manage health and safety, compliance, and biosecurity risks.
“PCBU Enterprise is our biggest and most ambitious agri risk and safety product yet. It sets a new standard for safety outcomes by ensuring enterprises, contractors, and suppliers share a transparent system that leaves nothing to chance when it comes to safety and shared risks,” said Ryan Higgs, CEO of Onside.
Almost two years ago, Onside partnered with ANZCO Foods to tackle a complex problem the industry has been wrestling with: “how to manage safety duties when it doesn’t neatly follow fence lines, but instead follows the supply chain.”
“You can’t hide behind organisational layers when safety fails. With PCBU Enterprise, we’re making WorkSafe’s ‘3 C's’ of Consult, Cooperate, and Coordinate applicable across multiple PCBUs. This clarity ensures everyone knows who’s managing risk, creating a safer and more efficient supply chain.”
For meat companies, the shared safety duties extend across all producer properties and transport companies.
“ANZCO took the initiative, deciding it wasn’t good enough to wait for someone else to figure it out. The result is we’ve created what we believe is a world-first agri enterprise solution that will improve safety outcomes across the sector.”
The innovative platform has gained strong backing and collaboration from the National Livestock and Transport Safety Council (NLT&SC), which leads New Zealand’s livestock transport sector in improving safety, standards, and outcomes across the industry.
"The implementation of PCBU Enterprise by ANZCO and Onside is a giant step forward for our drivers’ on-site safety,” said NLT&SC President, Derek Foley.
“NLT&SC members have appreciated the ability to be involved with the development and roll-out process. We thank both ANZCO and Onside for this initiative and their ongoing support for our drivers’ safety."
Onside’s PCBU Enterprise solution is now available in New Zealand and Australia, offering agribusinesses the opportunity to adopt a proactive, unified approach to safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
