SolutionsMethamphetamine testers
Reporting software for meth testers
Screening and sampling technicians testing New Zealand properties for methamphetamine contamination, working to NZS 8510:2017.
In meth testing, the report is not paperwork that follows the job. It is the job. Nobody can see contamination; your client is paying for a document that says where you sampled, how, against what threshold, and what the numbers came back as. New Zealand has a dedicated standard for this work, NZS 8510:2017, which covers screening, sampling, testing and decontamination, and it is freely available online because its sponsors wanted landlords, councils and the public able to read it. A tester whose reports visibly follow it has an edge over one whose reports are a lab printout stapled to a cover letter.
What does NZS 8510 actually set?
The framework your report should reflect: contamination-level assessment, sampling methodology, maximum acceptable levels, and post-decontamination verification. Its headline thresholds are 1.5 micrograms per 100cm² for high-use areas and 3.8 for limited-access spaces like roof and subfloor cavities. One thing worth being straight about with clients: the standard is voluntary, not cited in legislation. It is the accepted industry benchmark rather than a legal mandate, and a report that pretends otherwise overstates its own authority.
How does ducksoup fit sampling work?
Bring your report template and it becomes the structure you capture into. On site you record each sampling location with a photo and its position in the property, note the method, and dictate anything the desk write-up will need. The report drafts itself in your format: property details, methodology statement, sampling plan, results table ready for the lab numbers, your interpretation wording, your disclaimers. What normally happens at a desk that evening happens while you are still on site.
Why does the write-up quality matter so much here?
Because the stakes on both sides are real. A false alarm can cost a vendor a sale; a missed contamination can cost a landlord a tenancy dispute or a remediation bill. When your report states its methodology, ties every sample to a photographed location, and separates measured results from interpretation, it holds up when someone leans on it. That is also, not coincidentally, the shape NZS 8510 pushes reports toward.