Can we keep using our own report template and guideline tables?

Yes. The report renders into the Word template you already issue, and your guideline documents can be uploaded to a standards library so drafted prose is grounded in them rather than in a general model.

Does it import laboratory results?

Not directly from a laboratory system. Field data — locations, field parameters, sample IDs, photos and observations — is captured on the form; laboratory certificates can be uploaded as documents alongside the job.

Will it work at a remote site with no coverage?

Field capture does: the job, the form, photos, notes and audio recordings are stored on the device and sync when a connection returns. Rendering the report happens back online.

Is this a replacement for our GIS or database?

No. It is where field observations are captured and where the report is produced. Location registers and results can be viewed in a spreadsheet-style grid, but it is not a spatial analysis or environmental data management system.

Environmental consulting and monitoring software

An environmental consultancy sells documents that a regulator, a site auditor or a purchaser’s lawyer will read line by line. The fieldwork — a day of drilling, a round of bores, a noise logger swap — produces sample IDs, readings and photos; the deliverable is a report that ties every one of those back to a guideline value and a conclusion. Most of the write-up time goes on re-keying IDs and rebuilding the same tables.

The reports in this discipline fall into three families. Investigation work — Phase 1 and Phase 2 assessments, acid sulfate soil and asbestos-in-soil surveys, audits under a site auditor scheme — is a one-off argument built from samples and history. Monitoring work — groundwater, surface water, air, noise, vibration, landfill gas — is the same locations visited round after round, where the value is in trending results against the last event. Compliance work — licence condition rounds, erosion and sediment control audits, hazardous materials registers — is a checklist with evidence attached. In SurveyThanks the locations are entered once as a register, each round or sample points at a stored location rather than a typed name, and the report renders into your own Word template.

Enter your sample locations once

Rename BH04 to "Former UST pit" and every sample, every round and every exceedance table follows it, because the link is a stored row id rather than a sentence somebody typed.

What goes in your reference library

ASC NEPM 1999 (as amended 2013) and its Schedule B guidelines
State EPA sampling design and assessment guidelines
AS 4482.1 — investigation of potentially contaminated soil
Your own in-house QA plan and reporting proforma
Client-specific and site-auditor-specific reporting conditions

Reviewed before it leaves

Your own checklist and prose standards, run against the finished report — with findings graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault. Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review catches contradictions between the two: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.

29 report types in environmental

Standards the report works to

NEPM 1999 (amended 2013)National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure: The investigation and screening levels, and the Schedule B guidance, that contamination reports are written against.
AS 4482.1-2005Guide to the investigation and sampling of sites with potentially contaminated soil — Non-volatile and semi-volatile compounds: The sampling design basis most soil investigation reports cite.
AS/NZS 5667.1:1998Water quality — Sampling — Guidance on the design of sampling programs, sampling techniques and the preservation and handling of samples: How water samples are collected, preserved and recorded before they reach the laboratory.
ANZG 2018Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality: The default guideline values that water and sediment results are compared with.

Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.

Questions

Can we keep using our own report template and guideline tables?: Yes. The report renders into the Word template you already issue, and your guideline documents can be uploaded to a standards library so drafted prose is grounded in them rather than in a general model.
Does it import laboratory results?: Not directly from a laboratory system. Field data — locations, field parameters, sample IDs, photos and observations — is captured on the form; laboratory certificates can be uploaded as documents alongside the job.
Will it work at a remote site with no coverage?: Field capture does: the job, the form, photos, notes and audio recordings are stored on the device and sync when a connection returns. Rendering the report happens back online.
Is this a replacement for our GIS or database?: No. It is where field observations are captured and where the report is produced. Location registers and results can be viewed in a spreadsheet-style grid, but it is not a spatial analysis or environmental data management system.

Other disciplines

Bring your environmental template

Your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with the drafted prose landing where the template says it should.

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