RIW vs Melrose Safety
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RIW
This app allows authorized personnel to verify rail industry worker credentials and compliance. It enables checking competencies, viewing restrictions, and managing worker site access and roles.
- Verify worker competencies
- Check work restrictions
- View job roles
- Award site competencies
- Manage site locations
- View shift history
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Endorsed by the Australasian Railway Association, the RIW app provides you immediate access to compliance information about rail industry workers across Australia. The RIW app allows an authorised person nominated by their organisation to scan a Rail Industry Worker Card (physical or virtual) to: - Check in and verify workers to ensure they have appropriate, current and valid competencies to undertake roles before entering a worksite. - View work restrictions, blocks or suspensions associated with a rail industry worker and deny access to site. - View job roles associated with a rail industry worker. - Award site based competencies and view pending competencies. - Change site locations for teams or individual rail industry workers. - View shift history of a rail industry worker to support fitness for duty. Please visit riw.net.au for further information.
Melrose Safety
This app helps contractors manage work health and safety compliance for subcontractors. It provides tools and alerts to analyze site risks, ensuring adherence to construction regulations and minimizing workplace hazards. Track site locations and subcontractor inductions for improved safety management.
- Track subcontractor safety compliance
- Analyze and convey site risks
- Ensure adherence to construction regulations
- Minimize workplace risk and prevent injuries
- Automatic site location tracking via GPS
- Online induction program completion tracking
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Melrose Safety mobile application increases the efficiency of Melrose network by allowing the principal contractors to keep track of ongoing work health and safety compliance by their subcontractors. Melrose Safety gives the necessary tools, information services and alerts needed to analyze and convey site risks to workers, subcontractors and their principal contractors. Melrose Safety allows builders and subcontractors to completely act in accordance with the Construction work code of practice and maintain the standards of health, safety and welfare required under work health and safety regulations in each State. Melrose Safety provides alerts needed to ward off injuries and minimize workplace risk. The application uses your phone’s GPS receiver to automatically track the site location where risk assessments, toolbox talks and other functions are conducted. Subcontractors can easily finalize a builder’s online induction program and the data of completion is directly available to a site supervisor if required. If you have any concerns or suggestions on how we can improve the app, please feel free to reach out at safetyapp@melrosecontracting.com.au
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Melrose Safety at 100% against RIW's 0%. Melrose Safety also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.3 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RIW ships an update every 4 months, Melrose Safety every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RIW | Melrose Safety |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Reference Point Limited | Melrose Contracting Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
RIW
Melrose Safety
In-app purchases
RIW
No in-app purchases
Melrose Safety
No in-app purchases
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