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 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. The statement monitoring service is based on the Building Regulations 2006, Section I Maintenance Building Code of Australia and ensures your statutory obligations are met when signing the Annual Essential Safety Measures Report (AESMR). SMC Statement Monitoring Statement

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, and 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: Reducing Risk

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 services requires the Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statements to certify (on specific dates each year), that they have performed all required essential safety measures 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 essential safety measures maintenance works have been successfully completed and allows the building owner or agent to sign the annual essential safety measures report (AESMR) with confidence.

Statement Monitoring: Annual Statement: AESMR

Victoria's Building Regulations 2006 require the building owner or agent to sign AESMR 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 you are advised otherwise through our statement monitoring, before the building owner is required to sign the AESMR.

Statement Monitoring: Sample Statement

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