Comparison
GO! Site Approved vs Pegasus
The most mining-native product on this list. Founded in Newcastle in the late 1980s as a labour-hire and safety training business for Hunter Valley mines, now owned by Avetta and covering worker competency, induction, prequalification, site access and asset management.
Worker competency and site access, born in Hunter Valley mining
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Who each one is for.
Who Pegasus was built for
Principals verifying contracting company workers before site entry. It is the model most Australian mining contracting companies have already met, often across several of their clients.
Where the two genuinely overlap
The closest match on this list. Both verify worker competency against a site's requirements, both handle induction and site access, and both came out of Australian mining.
At a glance
GO! Site Approved and Pegasus, side by side
| GO! Site Approved | Pegasus | |
|---|---|---|
| Owned in | PIAGO — Australia (Brisbane) | Avetta — United States (Utah) |
| Sold to | The mine or quarry operator | The organisation contracting companies come onto |
| Company prequalification | Yes | Yes |
| Worker competency and tickets | Yes | Yes |
| Plant and equipment compliance | Yes | Yes |
| Site access | Yes | Yes |
| Designed for Australian mining complianceUs | Yes | Not stated |
| Matched product for the other side of the gateUs | Yes | Not stated |
A tick means the vendor publicly offers it. A dash means they do not put it forward — not that it cannot be done. Ownership and product scope checked August 2026.
The honest split
Choose GO! Site Approved if
- You want an Australian-owned platform. Pegasus has been US-owned since 2021.
- You need the 2026 critical control obligations answered for plant as well as people.
- The contracting companies that take up GO! Site Ready turn up with their end already in order — less paperwork for you to chase, and fewer gaps found at the gate.
- You would rather deal with Carl, who owns and built it, than an account manager.
Choose Pegasus if
- Your contracting companies are already in Pegasus for most of their other clients, and moving them costs more than staying.
The commercial model
Who pays for your contracting companies to be on it.
How Pegasus describes its model
Pegasus runs on worker registration paid per person, per year — and, where a worker attends several clients, per client. That structure is published on Pegasus's own support material and on the contracting company portals its clients run, so it is not something we are inferring.
How GO! Site Approved works
GO! Site Approved is a single operator licence. Your contracting companies are not charged per head to be on it, and a worker who attends three of your sites is not paying three times to do it. Take that alongside the depth it is built on: approvals attributed to the site senior executive who carries the obligation, compliance status enforced at the gate through WinDsx and Gallagher, and fatigue rules applied at entry.
Worth asking either way, of us or of anybody else: who pays per contracting company, and what happens to that number at your next renewal or migration.
The verdict
For an Australian mine choosing today, GO! Site Approved is the stronger position.
Pegasus has a long history in Australian resources and it verifies workers properly — if your contracting companies are already deep inside it, that inertia is real. What has changed is the ground underneath it. The product is American-owned now, it is one layer of a global supply-chain platform rather than the whole focus, and verifying the person is only half of what an operator has had to demonstrate since 1 June 2026.
This comparison describes what each product is built for, drawn from how Pegasus describes itself publicly. We do not run their software and make no claims about what it cannot do. If you work at Pegasus and think this is unfair, tell us and we will fix it.
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Bring the other quotes. Carl will tell you where we lose — it is quicker than finding out in month three.