Biometric attendance system for mining sites.
Who's underground, always known.
Verified check-in and check-out at the portal gives a live headcount for safety, and stations keep working offline at remote pits and shafts.
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Time and attendance management software for mining.
Works with PPE and dirty hands
Face check-in works with helmets on and hands dirty, and iris on Premium suits areas where identity assurance has to be highest.
Contractor and FIFO crews
Each contractor can be its own group with its own roster, so its crews' hours report separately from your own staff.
Helmet checks at the portal
On Premium, helmet detection checks for a hard hat during the face check and can flag the check-in.
Restricted areas
With access control on Standard or Premium, only cleared staff get through the doors to explosives stores, plant rooms and other controlled areas.
Related problems we solve: Know who is on site right now → · No helmet, no clock-in → · Keep the data on your own servers →/p>
Who is underground right now.
In an emergency, the first question is who is still below ground. A tag board only works if everyone moves their own tag, so NCheck records a verified check-in and check-out by face where each shift starts.
| At the mine | How NCheck handles it |
|---|---|
| Lamp room or bus pick-up | A shared station running the NCheck Admin app records each person by face before the shift goes down (€95 one-off per device). |
| Portal entry and exit | On Standard and Premium, an IP camera at the portal reads several faces at once as a crew passes. |
| Who is below ground | The live view lists everyone checked in and not yet checked out, which is your headcount if the mine has to be evacuated. |
| No signal at the pit | On Standard and Premium, stations keep recording offline and sync when a connection is back. |
When the 06:00 crew of 28 goes down portal A, the camera checks in each miner as they pass. If an alarm sounds at 10:30, the surface office opens the live view and sees exactly who has not come back out.
In the US, MSHA rule 30 CFR 57.11058 requires underground metal and nonmetal mines to keep an accurate check-in and check-out record of persons in the mine, stored on the surface. A verified portal check can provide that record, with the server kept in the surface office, though it doesn't replace the identification each person must carry underground. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Runs at the mine, with or without a connection.
NCheck On-Premises runs on a server at the mine, online, offline or air-gapped, so attendance never depends on a satellite link. Hours export as CSV or Excel for payroll, and the REST API works the same as in the cloud.
“We are using this software across different locations and it just works. A great fit for small and medium-size organisations.”
Simple pricing, per employee.
Free for up to 5 employees. Paid plans are billed per employee, per month — yearly billing saves 20%.
Free
Forever, up to 5 employees. Face check-in, GPS, timesheets & reports.
Standard
+ Fingerprint, unlimited employees, RFID & barcode, access control, on-premises option.
Premium
+ Iris, visitor queue & visit notes, custom feature extensions.
Offline stations and IP cameras at the portal need Standard, and helmet detection and iris need Premium.
Mining time and attendance questions.
What is time and attendance software for mining?
It records when each worker starts and finishes a shift, applies roster and overtime rules, and turns the hours into payroll. At a mine it also has to show who is on site or underground at any moment, which is why check-out matters as much as check-in.
Can miners check in without a phone?
Yes. Shared stations at the lamp room, the bus pick-up or the portal check everyone in by face, so nobody needs to carry a personal phone underground.
Can we track hours for fatigue rules?
NCheck records verified hours per person and applies your shift and overtime rules, so reports show who has worked long shifts or extra days across a swing. The fatigue limits themselves come from your own policy.
What if a worker won't use biometrics?
They can check in manually, or by RFID card or barcode on Standard and Premium. Our compliance guides by region cover consent rules for biometric attendance. This is general guidance, not legal advice.
Bring verified attendance
to your mining team.
Free for up to 5 employees. 30-day free trial on every paid plan. Our compliance guides by region cover consent and data rules, and on-premises deployment keeps everything on servers at your site.