Specialist Maintenance Contractor Statement Monitoring : EPAR

Essential Property Services provides a "Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statement Monitoring service" which monitors your maintenance contractor's prescribed essential fire safety measures contractual compliance through our unique software. This statement monitoring service requires maintenance contractors to provide a statement certifying that their essential fire safety measures inspections, testing and maintenance has been performed to the client's contracts. The statement monitoring service is based on Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulations 2000 (EPAR), Section I Maintenance Building Code of Australia and ensures your statutory obligations are met when signing the Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS).

Compliance with essential fire safety measures regulations is an issue of significant interest to building owners and 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 fire safety measures;
A loss occurs as a result of the failure of essential fire 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 fire safety measures legislation.

The EPS statement monitoring service provides a safeguard to minimise the risk exposure presented to building owners (managers) when essential fire safety measures have failed in an emergency, causing property damage or injury to a person. Our statement monitoring services requires the Specialist Maintenance Contractors Statement to certify (on specific dates each year) that they have performed all required inspections, tests and remedial maintenance works on their contracted essential fire 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 or agent to sign the Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS) with confidence.

EPAR require the building owner or agent to sign the Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS) certifying compliance with the regulations. EPS has developed a statement monitoring software program that tracks all essential fire safety measures statements required by your contractors, specific to each building. Each maintenance contractors' statement is obtained or, through our statement monitoring, you are advised otherwise, before the building owner is required to sign the Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS).