Case Study: Edinburgh Airport achieves 50% reduction in contractor administrative time with VelocityEHS Control of Work

Edinburgh Airport Reduced Contractor Administrative Time by 50%

Edinburgh Airport, Scotland’s busiest airport (14.7M passengers in 2019 and the 6th busiest in the UK), manages a large, transient workforce with about 7,000 people working on projects across the campus in addition to ~750 direct employees. The Contractor Controller team struggled with slow, error-prone paper and SharePoint processes for vetting contractors, issuing permits and tracking work locations, and needed a fast, easy-to-use system to handle growing volumes.

Edinburgh implemented VelocityEHS Control of Work, a simple, streamlined permit and contractor management solution that sped up permit production and approvals. The software cut contractor administrative time by 50%, supports more than 250 permits or passes per month (permit processing volume is up 57% from 2023), is easy to train new users on, and enables rapid handling of insurance, competency checks and other steps for over 500 companies working on site.

Edinburgh Airport