What is the digital construction site badge for?
The new digital badge constitutes – as regulated by the Commissioner’s Ordinance no. 216/2024 and the Commissioner’s Decree no. 332/2026 – a mandatory tool for monitoring attendance and access to construction sites affected by the post-2016 earthquake reconstruction of Central Italy. This is, for now in a limited area, the official transition to the operational phase of the most recent workplace safety measures (culminating in Law no. 198 of 29 December 2025).
In practical terms, the system allows each worker to be associated with their badge and to register entry into the construction site by clocking in. The mechanism does not only concern formal compliance: it serves to create a clearer correspondence between people present, companies involved and the reference construction site, reducing the risk of incomplete or outdated data.
The application of the badge is currently, and until 31 December 2026, in a monitoring and analysis phase aimed at verifying the functioning of the system in the field and progressively optimizing its operating methods.
Who should have the badge and when it should be used
The FAQs clarify that the obligation concerns construction and non-construction personnel working on the identified construction sites. Therefore, employees of the lead company, those of subcontractors and self-employed workers, even those not registered with the Fund, are affected. As regards the internal organization of the construction site, the lead company can indicate a construction site contact person, but the current regulatory framework does not require this figure to always be present; however, the presence of the person responsible for clocking in is required to carry out the registrations.
However, in this first phase, subjects who do not carry out work activities under contract or subcontract, such as designers, construction managers, safety coordinators, testers and similar figures, are excluded. Suppliers who are not part of the construction site’s production cycle are also excluded.
The badge is personal, but can be used on multiple construction sites. In the case of employee work, in fact, it is linked to the company or the employer: with the same badge the worker can access all the Sisma 2016 construction sites of the company he works for. Validity is not limited to a single region: the badge is unique and valid in the regions involved in the 2016 earthquake, always with the constraint of the relationship with the company in the case of an employee.
Clocking in, more construction sites and network problems
One of the most useful clarifications concerns the time of stamping. Registration is not required for both entry and exit: stamping must be done upon access to the construction site. If the worker moves between multiple Sisma 2016 construction sites on the same day, he must clock in at each new entry.
The FAQs also address the case, frequent on construction sites, of the absence or instability of the internet connection. If the network doesn’t work, the app still allows you to clock in; the data will be sent to the Badge Dashboard as soon as the connection becomes available again. The status of the clockings is also visible in the app, so as to allow operational control even in non-optimal conditions.
Subcontractors, self-employed and corporate responsibility
For construction and non-construction subcontractors and for self-employed construction and non-construction workers, the FAQs specify that, in the start-up phase, the badge can be requested directly by the interested parties. This is an important practical clarification, because many reconstruction sites involve multiple companies and different operational figures, not always attributable to the lead company alone.
However, the company’s responsibility for activating and using the system correctly remains central. If the company does not activate the badge system within the established deadlines, or if the worker systematically omits clocking in, a situation of failure to comply with the provisions of the reconstruction arises, with the possible activation of checks by the control bodies.
Because the FAQs are useful for businesses and technicians
The FAQs help translate the badge obligation into daily procedures: who must request it, how to use it, when to clock in, what to do in case of technical problems and which subjects must be tracked. For companies, site managers and technicians involved in reconstruction, the operational point is to verify in time the activation of the system, the correct association of workers and sites and the management of the figures in charge of clocking in.
Although they refer to the construction sites of the post-earthquake reconstruction of Central Italy, the FAQs also take on a broader value: the operational rules on badges, stamping, access, roles and controls could in fact represent a first reference in view of a future application of the digital badge on a national scale.
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