Weather conditions are a major driver of dust emissions. When your business relies on earthworks, heavy machinery operating on unsealed roads or stockpiling bulk material, it is important to understand the risk of creating dust pollution.

Local environmental, and health and safety regulators are tightening requirements for industrial sites to manage their dust emissions both on and off site (see QLD example). Best practice dust control now requires proactive dust risk management, rather than reactive dust risk management. Reactive management is waiting for your dust monitors to show a problem or waiting for a complaint or seeing visible dust leave your site. Proactive management is planning and implementing your dust controls before you have a problem.

Kite identifies your site’s Dust Risk days in advance enabling you to apply controls or reschedule events to reduce dust emissions from your site. Kite dust risk dashboard will help you proactively manage your dust risk in order to reduce or avoid events that end up resulting in complaints, low employee satisfaction and/or environmental notices issued by the regulators.

• Improve your Trigger Action Response Plan (TARP) to be able to pre-emptively address risks.
• Use the Kite DigiTARP to make monitoring your trigger easy and auditable.