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EQUIPMENT SHOWCASE
The mates were Jozef Boucher, Anton
Jaspers and Colin Berry and the first
machine they purchased as BJB
Excavations was a JCB 3C backhoe
loader, which they named Lily 1 after
Jozef’s wife.
Anton and Colin eventually moved on
to new ventures, with Colin going on to
start a business that was bought by the
Downer Group in 2010.
BJB Excavations continues today, headed
by Jozef’s son-in-law Eric Bast after Jozef
passed away. BJB Excavations focuses on
water main renewal and trenching across
Melbourne. Eric recently purchased their
sixth JCB backhoe loader, a 3CX, aptly
named Lily 6.
“All our JCB backhoes are traditionally
named Lily. It’s how Jozef started it and
how we want to continue it,” Eric said.
Backhoe legacy for JCB customer
Victorian company BJB Excavations was established in the 1970s by three mates and one
JCB backhoe loader. Forty years later, JCB equipment is still at the heart of the business.
“Lily 1 was durable and
efficient and they still are to
this day, which is why we
continue to buy them. They
provide us with the reliability
we need within our works,
which in turn allows us to
provide our customers with a
reliable service they can trust.
“The backhoes in particular
give me peace of mind with
exceptional hydraulic hose
routing on the boom. We work
under a lot of trees and I know
with this design, the hoses
won’t tear. The design on the
backhoes is second to none
and the DieselMAX engine is
efficient and clean.”
Contact JCB on 02 8788 8513
or visit: www.jcbcea.com.au
Victorian excavation company BJB Excavations have been purchasing JCB
machinery for over 40 years
The ‘library function’ provides users
with powerful capability to review and
manage documents related to their safe
systems of work and make these easily
and quickly available to operators and
other site personnel.
Plant Assessor’s digital pre-start and
machine sharing functions allow
seamless sharing and transparency
between principals and contractors
in any workplace. This allows critical
information to be shared and compliance
standards to be set, understood and met.
Benefits for plant users:
• Online plant and equipment library:
Central cloud based repository for
all machines and their associated
documentation;
• All machine related documents
stored in one place;
• Easily accessible to personnel -
information available digitally at
the coalface;
• Procedures and site rules available
New Document Management Library for Plant Assessor
at the front line, with ability to link
to individual or machine groups;
• Link procedural and other documents
to companies, sites and equipment:
Upload and categorise documents to
serve them up to the people who need
to know about them. When an operator
conducts a digital pre-start check they
can easily access SWMS, site rules etc;
• Share machinery: Share machines and
have contractors share their machines
with you;
• For principals: all machinery
and documentation for owned and
contracted machines in one place;
• For contractors: avoid the
duplication of compiling and
submitting information to different
clients in different formats;
• Clarify machine and site requirements:
Centrally set and manage documentary
requirements for machinery being used
on a site or business unit/location;
• For principals: Make sure your
machinery and contractors’
machinery is accompanied by
documentation meeting required
standards for pre-qualification;
• For contractors: clarity on client
requirements before getting to
site, minimise mobilisation time
on arrival;
Benefits for machinery suppliers:
• Dealers: Upload relevant handover
documents to Plant Assessor and
transfer these to your purchasers
digitally via Plant Assessor’s Sell Unit
function. Make the shift to digital
purchaser handover files, including
warranty documents, invoices, etc;
• Hire companies: Use it to provide
digital documentation to clients and
utilise the digital pre-start check to
stay in touch with usage and condition
of your machines while on hire.
Contact 1300 728 852 or visit website:
www.assessor.com.au
Plant Assessor has released a document management library, allowing users to upload,
categorise and link documents to companies, sites, tasks and machines, in what the
company called “the most significant single enhancement to Plant Assessor since its
launch in 2004”.
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