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Logbook Audits: Essential Safety Provisions

Essential Property Services provides clients with a comprehensive essential safety provisions Specialist Maintenance Contractor logbook audits service. This logbook audits service safeguards the interests of the building owner and manager by ensuring that the contractor's services are being provided in accordance with their essential safety provisions contract.

Logbook Audits: Active and Passive: Essential Safety Provisions

Most building owners' and managers' buildings contain active and passive essential safety provisions, which should require regular logbook audits. Active essential safety provisions are inspected and maintained by the clients nominated specialist maintenance contractor, who performs the necessary tasks in accordance with their contract, logbook audits will safeguard the building owners interests. Some of these active essential safety provisions can be sprinkler systems, emergency lighting, fire hydrants, hose reels, portable fire extinguishers and smoke control systems all needing logbook audits.

Logbook Audits: Essential Safety Provisions

Various Australian Standards are referenced in the Building Code of Australia for maintenance of active essential safety provisions have reporting instructions, generally provided for by the requirement of an onsite logbook. EPS staff are experienced and aware of the various types of essential safety provisions logbook audits required for various essential safety provisions.  Our logbook audits will reveal necessary information maintenance contractors have to provide in their specific logbooks for each inspection or maintenance routine.

Logbook Audits: Australian Standards

Clients should be aware that the following active essential safety provisions require reporting systems or logbooks to be provided, and logbook audits should be conducted regularly to safeguard the client's interests:

A number of the above essential safety provisions appear in Australian Standard AS 1851-2005 Maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment which advocates the requirements for logbook audits. This Standard requires a reporting system for essential safety provisions to verify that inspections and maintenance works have occurred, and logbook audits are recommended.