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# A global engineering and construction firm desensitized 800,000 safety records in one day.

The firm was pooling safety incident records from several construction contractors to learn why accidents happen. The records were full of personal data, and redacting them by hand would have taken years.

800,000safety records desensitized

1 dayinstead of years by hand

Hoursto set up

CLIENTGlobal engineering and construction firm

RECORDSNearly one million safety incident reports

SHARED WITHConstruction contractors in the program

REDACTION RULESThe firm’s own redaction policy

QUOTE

> “DataXray allows participating contractors to easily and confidently redact any personal information from their safety records.”

_DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY TEAM · GLOBAL ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION FIRM_

THE CHALLENGE

## The records couldn’t be shared as they were

Comparing incidents across contractors only works if everyone shares their records.

Nearly one million records held personal and sensitive data.

THE APPROACH

## Automated redaction to the firm’s own policy

Due to DataXray already anonymizing similar safety records for other clients, this enterprise firm chose DataXray to do the same job.

DataXray was set up in a couple of hours. It found the personal and sensitive data in each record, tagged it against the firm’s rules, and removed it. Contractors in the program could redact their own records the same way before sharing them.

THE RESULT

## The contractors could start comparing incidents

The desensitized records were shared across the program.

800,000 records desensitized in one day

Years of manual redaction avoided

Set up in a couple of hours

Redaction rules built on the firm’s own policy

Records shared across contractors in the program

Desensitized records searchable for work on site

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

## Redaction became part of the routine

The firm now redacts safety records on an ongoing basis, not as a one-off project. Its teams can also search the desensitized records for anything relevant to work on site.

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