Bushfire Recovery Victoria Storm Impacted Trees Project
Yarra and Dandenong Ranges, The Grampians, Gippsland, Central Highlands
Objectives
Engaged in June 2021, to commence by August 2021 a large scale tree clean up project across Victoria, working for Johns Lyng Group, the head contractor for a major Victorian State Government storm rectification contract.
Challenges
The major challenge with this contract:
Rapid mobilisation time frame in the middle of a pandemic.
Scale of the project in terms of number of trees.
Geographic spread.
Technical and safety challenges dealing with Mountain Ash, the world's second largest tree.
Maintaining Enviro Trees service delivery to all existing customers during a time of substantial weather event driven volumes.
Substantial accountability for all hours, equipment and work performed on a site by site, daily basis.
Solutions
Enviro mobilised, using our network of Tree Partners, ten different companies to cover the designated areas. These included:
Total of 60 plus qualified field operators
30 trucks
20 chippers
Excavators, bobcats and elevated work platforms.
Onboarding of the work crews, qualifications onto the JLG compliance platform:
Inductions
Implementation of required reporting procedures
Daily check-in and toolbox
Equipment checks & certified.
Emergency procedures
Confirmed Covid (minimum first injection).
A full time Operations Manager liaised with JLG to:
provide insight and knowledge regarding arboriculture and the tree industry.
Assisted preparation of supporting documentation for bush fire prevention plans, covid plans, environmental risk and management.
Enviro installed two full time site safety supervisors, to audit the crews, coordinate with the residents and liaise with JLG and BRV.
First job commenced the 29th of July 2021.
Final job was 9th of March 2022.
Completed 258 jobs on the project.
Worked on over 1,250 trees (removals or prune).
36,445 hours of work completed.
Nil Lost Time Injuries.
“We were proud to have been able to mobilise so rapidly and deliver an exceptional level of service to Bushfire Recovery Victoria, via Johns Lyng Group. This project demonstrated the value of the Enviro model with a network of experienced and certified compliant Tree Partners, supported by our operations teams and underpinned by our in house application, Tree ManagerTM.”
