Demining & Ordnance Disposal

Olive Group Demining and EOD Services, Clearing the Explosive Legacy of War

Olive has first hand experience of the human and commercial costs of conflict, and has seen the effect that abandoned explosive remnants of war can have, blighting areas for decades, creating human tragedies, and resulting in local economic isolation. Olive has developed a comprehensive demining capability led by a team of experienced experts. This globally deployable capability offers both land and underwater services and is rigorously conducted in accordance with IMAS standards.

Commercial Demining

Increasingly, many of our commercial clients are finding themselves working in remote uninhabited areas where there is a threat from mines or other unexploded ordnance and in response to their requirements. Olive understand that commercial clients require cost time and performance matrices and so Olive's demining services are quantifiable and measurable service, bound by time cost and performance parameters.

Humanitarian Demining

Olive Group recognises that humanitarian demining requires a different approach in order to ensure that a whole area is completely safe for rehabitation. Olive therefore combines demining services with mine education programmes and other appropriate activities in order to enable communities to return to normal.

Services

Project Management. All Olive's projects are delivered in accordance with PRINCE2 methodology, and where appropriate the conduct of demining operations is done within this framework. Olive's managers are able to assist clients in all aspects of planning and managing their demining projects.

Risk Assessment and Technical Survey. Olive can conduct risk assessment and technical survey in order to enable project planning and costing. This assessment and survey will enable Olive to prioritise areas for survey, select the most appropriate equipment and prepare equipment and teams and will enable Olive to quantify the scope of subsequence clearance operations.

Clearance Operations. Olive will clear areas to allow their reuse. To achieve this Olive will consider all appropriate methods of clearing including mechanical, manual or dogs or a combination of these.

Mechanically Assisted Clearance. Olive is able to deploy a variety of mechanical devices to assist in mechanical clearance of an area.

Manual Clearance. Olive's experienced deminers operate in accordance with IMAS principles at all times. They are able to use a wide variety of manual tools and electronic detection devices to clear ground of explosive remnants.

Explosive Detection Dogs. Olive is able to deploy Explosive Detection Dogs in support of manual deminers.

Destruction of Ordnance. Olive can destroy stockpiled ammunition and recovered ordnance in order to assist clients meet international disposal targets. Olive Group will either destroy ordnance in situ or remove to a safe site¹ or hand over to the appropriate authorities to destroy. Destruction will be done in accordance with IMAS standards.

Confirmatory Technical Survey/QA. Having conducted clearance of an area, Olive will conduct a technical survey to confirm that the level of clearance is completed in compliance with IMAS and certified as such².

¹With the exception of some munitions which are too sensitive to move and must be destroyed in-situ.

²Olive Group note that IMAS are recommendations, not legal standards, and so our work is certified to having been rigorously conducted in accordance with the principles of IMAS.