VIC - Essential Property Services advises that the Building Code of Australia (BCA) references many Australian Standards for the design and installation of building elements, with building regulators nominating either Installation Standards or Maintenance Standards as the reference for the maintenance of essential safety measures… (more)
NSW - Essential Property Services advises that an interim fire safety certificate is a certificate issued by the owner of a building to the effect that each essential fire safety measure specified in the current fire safety schedule for the part of the building to which the certificate relates does comply with EPAA and [...]
AUST - Essential Property Services advises building owners and managers of the need to ensure that their consultants, contractors or tenants’ contractors know when essential safety measures known as ‘fire-rated wiring’ are required. This problem seems to arise when a tenant instigates a new fit out and finds out the existing cabling does not [...]
QLD – Essential Property Services advises building owners and managers need to be aware that the Building Fire Safety Regulation includes an obligation for maintenance contractors or any person conducting maintenance and testing to notify occupiers of critical defects with prescribed fire safety installations.
What is a critical defect?
The definition [...]
NSW – Essential Property Services advises property managers and real estate agents of the need to advise building owners to be more aware than ever of the need to supply an Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS) to council and the fire brigade. The fines payable under Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation [...]
VIC – Essential Property Services advises property owners to be concerned about the storage of dangerous goods as non compliance may affect the payout on insurance claims in the event of the building being damaged by fire, and rendering essential safety measures ineffective. The Dangerous Goods (Storage and [...]
AUST – Essential Property Services advises facility and property managers that when engaging consultants or contractors to perform essential safety measures maintenance, inspections or reports, be aware that there is an extremely important distinction to make between the levels of protection afforded by each.
To protect yourself and [...]
QLD - Essential Property Services prescribed fire safety installations logbooks are web enabled and contain explanatory guidance for the user to ensure that the building owner, manager and occupier’s prescribed fire safety installations obligations are met under the Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 (BFSR)… (more)
NSW – Essential Property Services reminds building owners and managers of their responsibilities for the maintenance of essential fire safety measures in their buildings under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulations 2000. Clause 182 of the Regulations requires the owner of a building to maintain each essential fire safety measure in [...]
VIC - Essential Property Services provides a “Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statement Monitoring service” that monitors your specialist maintenance contractor’s essential safety measures compliance through our unique software. This statement monitoring service ensures that your statutory obligations are met through the provision by specialist maintenance contractors, of a statement certifying that their essential [...]
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