Statement Monitoring: Essential Safety Measures

Essential Property Services provides a "Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statement Monitoring service" that monitors your maintenance contractor's essential safety measures compliance through our unique software. This statement monitoring service ensures that your statutory obligations (annual maintenance statement) including Section I Maintenance Building Code of Australia are met through the provision by maintenance contractors, of a statement certifying that their essential safety measures inspections, testing and maintenance has been performed to the clients' contracts, based on State or Territory essential safety measures regulations.

Statement Monitoring: The Reasons

Compliance with essential safety measures legislation is an issue of significant interest to building owners, managers, owners corporations, property purchasers, tenants, building visitors, insurance companies and authorities. Essential safety measures statement monitoring is particularly useful when:

A dispute arises relating to the lack of testing and maintenance of essential safety measures;
A loss occurs as a result of the failure of essential safety measures to operate in the event of an emergency;
A building owner is served with an infringement notice from an authority for non compliance under essential safety measures legislation.

Statement Monitoring: Risk Reducing

EPS statement monitoring service provides a safeguard to minimise the risk exposure presented to building owners (managers) when essential safety measures have failed in an emergency, causing property damage or injury to a person. Our statement monitoring service requires the Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statements to certify (on specific dates each year), that they have performed all required inspections, tests and remedial maintenance works on their contracted essential safety measures. The statement monitoring system provides signed statements which help provide legal assurance that the contracted maintenance works have been successfully completed and allows the building owner, occupier, or agent to sign the annual maintenance statement.

Statement Monitoring: Annual Maintenance Statement

Most jurisdictions require the owner or agent to sign an annual maintenance statement certifying compliance with the regulations. EPS has developed a statement monitoring software program that tracks all essential safety measures statements required by your contractors, specific to each building. Each maintenance contractors' statement is obtained or advised otherwise through our statement monitoring, before the building owner is required to sign the annual maintenance statement under applicable legislation.

Statement Monitoring: Sample Statement

To view a copy of our essential safety measures statement monitoring Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statement click here.