Overview

There are additional risks in the ground to those working in civil infrastructure, beyond making contact with and potentially damaging assets. Contaminated lands exist right across Australia, and asset owners have increasing requirements to manage the risks and deliver a Duty of Care to protect workers from potential exposure to hazardous materials.

Contaminated Land Compliance and Reporting enables contractors to automatically identify excavation risks near or within known contaminated land sites and present considerable time savings to clients.

This automation solution can be used for all types of environmentally sensitive sites such as:

  • Contaminated land (PFAS, PCBs, etc.)
  • Hazardous disused assets (eg. decommissioned asbestos pipes, tanks)
  • Ecological regeneration sites
  • Natural ecological hazards (eg. acid sulphate soils, toxic weeds, invasive species).
 

X-Info Suite uses information from the clients’ Before You Dig (BYD) automated response system to automatically identify excavation risks near or within known contaminated land sites. Once identified, the BYD enquirer automatically receives an email confirming they are within the buffer for a known contaminated land site and provided a detailed site plan, Environmental Management Plan (EMP) and Site Audit Statement (SAS) within just a few minutes of them lodging their Before You Dig enquiry. This ensures enquirers are acting in accordance with the asset owner’s contaminated land requirements, thereby lowering the risk of hazards to workers and mitigating the risk of further contamination or hazard displacement.

 

Key Benefits

  • Cost effective, the complete process requires little or no human intervention
  • Provides additional site specific information to enquirers
  • Clearly outlines the potential risk/hazard and suggested mitigation
  • Increases safety and environmental compliance
  • Creates a database of enquirers for tracking, follow up and reporting as required
  • Provides information to ensure that site remediation is undertaken
  • Can be integrated with our mobile data capture app, X-Info Aware, for in field verification
  • Straightforward, uses pre existing DBYD processes
  • Improves the level of internal coordination and external service.
  • Lower risk, increased compliance
  • Reduces human error
  • Ensures transparency of who is working on your contaminated land sites at all times
  • Quick and easy to implement and update.