Diversity and Inclusion
Remediation is a specialised trade. Concrete repair, cathodic protection, carbon fibre systems, industrial coatings and heritage work are not things people arrive already knowing.
That shapes how we think about this. We cannot recruit our way out of a skills shortage in a field this narrow, so we have to bring people into it and keep them.
Bringing people into a narrow trade
Most of our people started somewhere else in construction and learned remediation here. Applicator training, accreditation with the coating and repair system manufacturers, confined space and working at heights tickets, and time alongside someone who has done it before.
We pay for that training because there is nowhere else to get it. A qualified remediation applicator is a genuinely scarce thing in this country, and every one we train is one the industry did not have.
The people on our crews
Our crews are culturally mixed and a good number of our people were not born in Australia. On work involving confined spaces, heights, hazardous coatings and live infrastructure, an instruction that is half understood is a serious risk.
So inductions and toolbox talks are delivered so that everybody actually follows them, people are paired while they are new, and supervisors check understanding rather than assume it. That is not a diversity policy, it is basic competence, but the two overlap more than people admit.
Client participation requirements
Much of our work is for principal contractors, asset owners and government, and those clients increasingly carry social procurement and workforce participation obligations that flow down to us. We are used to working inside those frameworks and reporting against them. Send the requirements with the tender documents and we will tell you plainly what we can commit to.
Conduct on occupied assets
Remediation almost always happens on something that is still in use. A bridge carrying traffic, a wharf still working, a building with people in it, a heritage site with visitors walking past.
So the standard of behaviour on our sites is not a nicety. Bullying and racism are dealt with formally, and so is how our crews speak to the public, the client's staff and other trades. On a live asset our people are the most visible part of the project.
Perfect Remediation acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Traditional Custodians of the country on which we live and work. We pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians and Elders past, present and future, and honour their connection to the land and ongoing contribution to society.