Essential Property Services

Fire Safety Installations

Essential Property Services (EPS) provides independent inspections and auditing services for fire safety installations and special fire services to ensure our clients building are safe, and to ensure our clients meet their obligations under the Queensland Building Act 1975, Queensland Building Fire Safety Regulations (QBFSR) 2008, the Queensland Development Code (QDC) 6.1, the Fire and Rescue Services Act 1990, the Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991, the State Penalties Enforcement Act 1999, the Aged Care Act 1997 and AS 1851-2005 Maintenance of Fire Protection Systems and Equipment Standard.

Since EPS is independent of any maintenance company, our services are aimed purely at providing effective compliance outcomes at minimal cost for our clients, in the event that any maintenance or rectification works are necessary.

Fire Safety Installation Inspections

Essential Property Services provides a comprehensive inspection service for prescribed fire safety installations and special fire services under the regulations nominated in occupancy permits, certificate of classification and prescribed fire safety installation schedules. EPS inspection results are provided in formatted compliant essential safety measures logbooks, either in hard copy, via email or through accessing our secure website for all reports, logbooks and Annual Essential Safety Measures Reports. EPS Queensland provides a protected word document report that enables client input, as well as input from specialist maintenance contractors engaged by our clients that can be used as tool to ensure compliance within the Queensland fire safety environment.

Clients are faced with various essential safety measures terms due to the historical progression of regulations and the circumstances under which they may apply to your building. Terms still in current use include: essential services, special fire services, prescribed fire safety installations, fire safety measures, equipment and safety installations, safety measures, safety installations and essential safety measures.

Fire Safety Installations Compliance

Essential Property Services is a leading specialist in  prescribed fire safety installations and special fire services compliance (and building control through the Hendry Group). Our staff, audits, logbooks and systems enable building owners and managers to meet their statutory obligations under the Queensland Building Act 1975, Queensland Building Fire Safety Regulations (QBFSR) 2008 and Queensland Development Code (QDC) 6.1.

EPS provides clients with a comprehensive  fire safety installations service, ensuring building owners, managers, owner corporations, building engineers and tenants are able to meet their obligations, including the provision of an 'Annual Occupier's Statement' under the Queensland Development Code 6.1.

EPS knowledge, experience, systems and qualified staff are all applied to ensure compliance of prescribed  fire safety installations on behalf of clients and to enable the ESM process to be signed off at 'Annual Occupier's Statement' stage.

Specialist Maintenance Contractor Statement Monitoring

Annual compliance reporting and sign-off by property owners and managers require supporting evidence of maintenance works done by the specialist maintenance contractors involved.

Essential Property Services assist their clients in meeting their compliance obligations by providing a service known as the "Specialist Maintenance Contractors Monitoring Service," which monitors your contractor's fire safety installations compliance and assists in the provision of an annual 'Occupiers Statement' to the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service (QFRS) as required by the QDC 6.1 Schedule 1.

Based on our essential safety measures logbooks, this service ensures that maintenance contractors provide a statement certifying that their prescribed fire safety installation inspections, testing and maintenance has been performed to the requirements set out in the clients' contract, certificate of classification and prescribed fire safety installation schedules.

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