Use case 01
Your authorizations become a dated, validated work plan
A site's requirements are buried in authorization applications that often run to more than a thousand pages, then in the Orders in Council and authorizations that restate them. Added together, they number in the hundreds. Enviro extracts them, has your team validate them, then turns them into dated tasks and automatic data collection.
Today
An operating mine site lives under dozens of authorizations: an Order in Council, ministerial authorizations for each basin, water withdrawal or structure, and an industrial operating authorization renewed every five years. Every expansion, every new piece of infrastructure and every modification adds more, on top of the regulatory changes that have occurred since. Nobody decided it would be complex; it became so through accumulation.
Accumulation
A site's authorizations pile up over decades. Taken one at a time, they are under control. Added together, they form a whole that few sites can see in one consolidated view, with the version in force of each condition.
Buried requirements
What actually binds the site is often found in the authorization application itself, because the Order in Council generally requires compliance with the measures described in it. These commitments are rarely broken down and recorded anywhere other than in the document.
A memory carried by people
Knowing which requirement comes from which document, and what has changed since, depends on the experience of those who were there. A new person takes months to piece together what their predecessors knew.
Structuring
Requirements are extracted from your documents, then validated by your team
Enviro extracts requirements one by one, each with its source, expected result, type of proof, frequency and measurement points. This structure is proposed, never activated on its own. Your team reviews it requirement by requirement, corrects and approves, because a compliance tool cannot be a black box. When a site falls under an earlier edition of Directive 019, each requirement carries the version that applies, so several editions coexist without confusion. A new project, a renewal or a commitment made along the way then enriches the whole without erasing what was already there.
Execution
Every requirement produces the year's tasks
A requirement that calls for weekly sampling at four stations generates the tasks for the entire year, with their date, their infrastructure and their data-entry form. All the team has to do is open its calendar. Each task is assigned to an internal team or a contracted firm; the firm only has access to the scope of its mandate and submits its results in the system rather than by email. A completed task records its timestamp, operator, equipment and log. One that could not be done stays on the calendar with its justification, because a sample that was not taken is exactly the kind of detail an inspector notices.
Data collection
Some requirements take care of themselves
A flow measured continuously, a noise level captured by a permanent station or a result sent by the laboratory already exist and arrive on their own. Enviro automatically links them to the corresponding requirement. Compared with the expected result, the measurement becomes a compliance status, and an exceedance is flagged the moment it occurs rather than when the report is read. A single requirement can thus be met by a technician's sample, by a value from a historian such as Canary or PI, and by a laboratory certificate, with the same traceability.
Bring an authorization. We'll structure a requirement together
The demo starts from your document rather than a generic example. We take a condition that causes you friction and follow it all the way to the report.