Cairns Queensland based company servicing clients across a range of industries throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Oceania Region.
Our specialised robotic/RPAS/UAV equipment provide inspections, HD video reporting and photogrammetry data sets of industrial and commercial assets and infrastructure. We inspect underground and above-ground assets regardless of the difficulties and dangers. The speed and ease with which our drones complete these tasks is impressive. Even more convincing is the revolutionary way they do it all risk-free.
Risk of injuries and fatalities is avoided completely. Our drones are guided with accuracy and, without hesitation, they scale heights, plumb depths and penetrate toxic environments. They are purpose-built and collision-tolerant. They will not be thwarted in their mission to return high-definition video and photogrammetry data sets.
If you are looking for a streamlined approach to the inspection of your assets for the purpose of maintenance and sustainability. Q Survey provides a highly affordable and compelling solution.
Company history
QSurvey is an Australian owned and operated company founded in 2000. Head office based in Cairns, Queensland. Managing director, Graeme Normington, founded the company originally as a ship marine surveying company. Graeme has always been on the lookout for new technologies and innovative ways to carry out inspections of ships in a safer and more productive manner.
In recent years QSurvey has been implementing innovative “Remote Inspection Technologies” into the business and other industries besides shipping have been contracting our inspection services.QSurvey has, over the years developed into a business that specializes in providing survey inspection services to industry sectors such as marine-shipping, mining, sugar mills, food production, petrochemical, power generation and government utilities such as water storage and pumping facilities.
QSurvey prides itself in the adoption of innovative and evolving technologies. This ensures that we continuously deliver ever improving data to our clients for them to make better informed and timely decisions regarding the ongoing maintenance of their assets.
How We Do It
QSurvey specializes in using Robotic/RPAS/UAV inspection equipment that is of the highest commercial grade of construction, durable, reliable, collision avoidance sensor equipped, shielded from RF waves and magnetic fields etc.
For inspection of confined spaces we utilise the worlds first purposed designed and constructed collision tolerant RPAS/UAV that is sent into the confined space with the operator standing safely outside while collecting HD video and photogrammetry data sets (including thermal) during the inspection.
Whether it involves the tightest underground spaces in a mine, the chemical soup in a sewage treatment facility, or the highest towers in a communications network, we are ready to deliver high-definition video and photogrammetry data set reports to our clients.
QSurvey is certified as an ReOC holder with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) and our operators all hold RPAS RePLs.
Minimising risk
Inspections and surveys, particularly in hazardous situations such as at height, underground sites, at sea onboard ships, confined spaces, etc can all put lives at risk.
In Australia, approximately 5,000 people are injured while inside confined spaces carrying out inspection work or some other activity. Between 140 and 170 people die inside confined spaces every year in Australia.
The risks of working at height are often misunderstood by many people, from employers to employees, contractors, subcontractors, etc. One misconception is regarding the definition of working at height. Most people think of someone working on a skyscraper, or a very tall tower but that is not actually the case.
Did you know?
- Every year in Australia, an average of 29 people die from work-related falls.
- Falling from a height was the cause of 11% of all work-related deaths in Australia.
- Half of the fatal falls involved distances of three metres or less (31% from a height of two metres or less, and a further 19% involved falls from between two and three metres).
- 21 employees every day lodge claims for a falls-related injury that required one or more A typical claim due to a fall from height involved 6 weeks off work and compensation paid average over $14,000 per claim.
When QSurvey carries out your all-important inspection of your asset or infrastructure whether it is above ground, above water or within a confined space;
- People no longer have to work at heights hanging off ropes or standing inside cherry picker buckets
- People no longer need to enter hazardous confined spaces and be exposed to dangerous situations that put their lives at risk.
- Our inspection equipment reduces shut down times and client costs.
- The most inaccessible, complex spaces and structures can now be inspected, explored and condition assessed using our specialist RAPAS/UAV/ equipment
- We capture high definition 4K video including infrared and 12 megapixel photogrammetry data for an in depth analysis of the asset be being inspected.
- Inspections take only hours or often minutes.
- No scaffolding, rope access or cranes required to perform internal visual inspections of confined spaces.
- We manage and comply with all aviation regulatory requirements.
Inspections that would normally endanger your people can now be completed in hours and sometime in minutes, with zero risk to anyone. Q Survey and its high-tech RPAS/UAV equipment is absolutely safe in the workplace environment.
Call for a quote on your survey or inspection today.
Zero Risk To People, Safe, Efficient & Affordable Inspections
In the past, scaffolding, ropes, cranes and other equipment were needed to conduct a visual inspection. Make a late change to your requirements and it would often require equipment changes, significant delays and additional costs to you.
We can make adjustments on the fly quick and easy. The specialized RPAS/UAV equipment we use, are models of manoeuvrability and are as robust as they need to be for the jobs in question.
Our regular clients now use QSurvey as part of their risk assessment and mitigation measures.
Get in touch with the team at QSurvey today to find out more about Robotic/RPAS/UAV inspections at your site.
