Notes from the field.
Short, practical reads on field operations, safety evidence, job costing — and getting the record of the work without the paperwork.
United States
The site visit is no longer required
9 September 2026 · 7 min read
On US federal construction work, the requirement to provide for a site inspection during the solicitation phase has been removed. It is now the acquisition team's call — which means more of the bid rests on reading the documents, and the documents are the thing that contradict each other.
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When the estimate can't explain itself
4 September 2026 · 7 min read
A bid can add up and still be indefensible. When the query, the variation or the alternate arrives, the question is not the number — it is whether you can show the sections, the unpriced forms, what changed, and who decided.
Read →Safety & compliance
33 chemicals are about to lose their exposure limit
27 August 2026 · 7 min read
On 1 December 2026 workplace exposure standards become workplace exposure limits — and 33 substances come off the list entirely. Losing the number sounds like less regulation. It is the opposite.
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Your injury log is now a filing, not a folder
17 August 2026 · 7 min read
Larger US employers in designated high-hazard industries have submitted case-level injury detail — Forms 300 and 301, not just the 300A summary — since 2024. Once a record is a filing rather than a folder, what sits behind it matters differently.
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The silica duties that are pure paperwork
12 August 2026 · 7 min read
Most of the silica conversation is about dust control. But three of the duties are administrative — the worker register, the notification before legacy engineered stone work, and the monitoring records behind both.
Read →Electrical
Victoria's new electrical enforcement powers are live
5 August 2026 · 8 min read
The second wave of Victoria's energy safety reforms commenced on 1 April 2026. Prohibition notices, warranted entry and expanded improvement notices are already in force — and every one of them turns on what a contractor can produce on the day.
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NSW codes of practice are now mandatory. Can you prove it?
22 July 2026 · 5 min read
Since 1 July 2026, following an approved code of practice is a legal duty in NSW — not guidance. Both ways of complying now depend on evidence you can actually produce.
Read →Job costing
Job costing you don't have to chase
21 July 2026 · 4 min read
Most field jobs under-bill because what happened on site never makes it onto the invoice. Here's how capturing cost in the field fixes that.
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Would your safety record survive an audit?
14 July 2026 · 4 min read
When a client, insurer or regulator asks for proof a job was done safely, is it one click — or one week? A look at what defensible safety evidence really takes.
Read →Field evidence
A field job that documented itself
7 July 2026 · 5 min read
A routine directional-drilling bore, and everything the business needed to prove it — captured automatically, as the crew worked. A short story of before and after.
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