Built for credentials, not checklists.
SafetyCulture (formerly iAuditor) is a general-purpose inspection and audit platform, built for walking a checklist and logging what you found. CrewSafety is built around a different question: is this specific person, on this specific crew, actually cleared to do this job today. If you're evaluating SafetyCulture for a GC, a specialty trade, or a crane and rigging operation, here's the real difference before you decide.
If your team already runs daily walk-around inspections through SafetyCulture, this isn't an argument to rip that out. Inspections and credential tracking are different jobs. The question worth asking is which tool is actually built for tracking who's certified, when that expires, and whether your file would survive an audit today, not just for the checklist a foreman fills out every morning.
Two different starting points
SafetyCulture: built around the inspection
A checklist gets filled out, an issue gets logged, a photo gets attached. It's a strong, general-purpose tool for exactly that workflow, used across industries from food service to manufacturing to construction. A person's certifications, training history, and renewal deadlines aren't the organizing structure the product is built around.
CrewSafety: built around the person
The top-level record is a person, not a form. Open one and you get their whole standing at once: what they're qualified to do, what expires and when, what they've been through, and what has to happen next. The renewal clock belongs to the credential itself rather than to a reminder somebody set, so it keeps running whether or not anyone thinks to look.
General-purpose, industry-agnostic
SafetyCulture serves a broad range of industries with the same inspection-first structure. That breadth is a real strength for a company that mainly needs digitized checklists.
Built specifically for the trades
NCCCO, rigger levels, OSHA 10/30, forklift and aerial-lift operator quals: these are different kinds of credential, with different issuing bodies, renewal rules and prerequisites, and CrewSafety already models them that way. In a general-purpose tool they're custom fields somebody at your company has to define, maintain, and get right.
Inspection and audit trails
Strong at capturing what an inspection found, in the moment, with photos and notes attached.
A record that knows its own expiry date
An inspection tells you what was true on the morning somebody walked the site. Credential risk doesn't work that way: nothing looks wrong on the day you file it, and the failure arrives on a date nobody is watching. CrewSafety runs the clock on every credential and speaks up weeks out. Pricing follows headcount rather than feature tiers, and every tier's price is published.
A number no inspection could have produced.
Nobody filled in a form to make this exist. It's computed from every person's credential dates and recomputed as those dates move, which is why it can name the twelve cards that have already expired. A walk-around would not have found them, however carefully it was run.
You don't have to decide this in the abstract.
Load your crew's real certifications and see what comes back. If nothing turns up expiring, you've spent twenty minutes confirming your current setup is fine, which is worth knowing too. Five profiles, free forever. No credit card, no sales call.