Odour survey and assessment report app
Composting facilities, wastewater plants and landfills under odour conditions use field odour surveys to show where odour is detectable beyond the boundary, how strong it is, and what it smells like. Trained assessors walk set routes or sit at fixed points downwind and record intensity and character at intervals, alongside wind direction. The value of the survey is entirely in recording those observations the same way every time.
Built for waste operators running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Odour assessment report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Odour assessment report
Field odour survey — Morning run
- Facility
- Green Valley Organics (fictional)
- Date
- 7 May 2026, 06:30–08:00
- Wind
- South-westerly 2–3 m/s, stable
| Point | Intensity / character | Status |
|---|---|---|
| P1 Boundary gate | Distinct; compost, earthy | Status: Detected |
| P3 Road reserve | Faint; sour, intermittent | Status: Detected |
| P5 Nearest residence | None detected over 10 min | Status: Not detected |
| P6 Creek crossing | Weak; silage-like | Status: Detected |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the odour assessment report where your template puts it.
Per observation point
- Point ID and map location
- Time
- Intensity on your scale
- Character
- Duration or frequency detected
Run
- Assessor
- Wind speed and direction
- Atmospheric stability
- Site activities at the time
Standards the report works to
- AS/NZS 4323.3:2001Stationary source emissions — Determination of odour concentration by dynamic olfactometry
- The laboratory method cited when source samples are taken alongside the field survey.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the odour assessment report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the odour survey form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sample locations
Enter sample locations once, as a register. Every one of your samples, bores and monitoring rounds then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The odour assessment report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a odour assessment report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report says every bore was sampled to three metres; the form has BH07 refused at 1.2 m.
Checks a environmental framework usually carries
- Every exceedance in the results tables is discussed in the assessment text
- The guideline values cited match the land use actually being assessed
- No sample or bore ID appears in the prose that is absent from the data
- Data gaps, refusals and deviations from the sampling plan are stated as limitations
Questions
- Can the intensity scale match our methodology?
- Options are configured by your firm, and each option can carry its own report wording, so the scale reads correctly in the report.
- Can complaints be linked to a survey run?
- Complaints and survey points can reference the same location register, so a complaint location can be shown against the nearest survey point.
- Can observations be timed automatically?
- Each observation is a repeat row with its own time field, captured on the device even without signal.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other environmental work we cover
- Contaminated land auditsAudit evidence pack
- Environmental license compliance roundsLicense condition checklist
- Erosion and sediment auditsESC compliance report
- Groundwater monitoring roundsMonitoring event report
- Hazardous materials surveysHazmat register
- Illegal dumping investigationsDumping incident report
- Landfill cell inspectionsCell condition report
- Landfill gas monitoringGas monitoring report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your odour assessment report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.