Wood Group Scales Safety, Protects Privacy

Wood Group, one of the world’s largest engineering firms, needed to safely share safety incident data across its construction partners to uncover critical patterns and reduce on-site risks.

But there was a catch: nearly 1 million safety records contained sensitive or personal data, making it legally and operationally risky to share.

Manual desensitization would have taken years, putting collaboration, compliance, and safety outcomes at risk.

Problem

• Siloed safety data prevented cross-organizational learning

• Nearly 800,000 documents contained sensitive or regulated personal information

• Manual redaction was too slow and costly to be actionable

Needed a way to protect privacy without stalling insight-sharing

Solution

Wood Group deployed Data X-Ray to rapidly identify, tag, and redact sensitive information, automating a process that would otherwise have been unmanageable.

Key automation steps included:

1. Discovery of sensitive content within large unstructured data sets

2. Annotation with custom redaction tags based on safety and privacy policies

3. Automated removal of risky data to enable compliant sharing
   
   

Results: Redacted 800,000 records in just 1 day.

Business Value

• Faster knowledge sharing across construction partners to improve safety outcomes

• Operational efficiency from automated redaction and privacy enforcement

• Avoided manual review costs across nearly 1M documents

• Broader unstructured data framework adopted within 3 months

• Reduced storage burden and redundant licensing costs

• Future-ready approach to privacy, retention, and data disposition at scale
  
  

With Data X-Ray, Wood Group unlocked the power of sensitive operational data without putting people, IP, or compliance at risk.