Fire Safety Maintenance Sydney

A declaration the building owner issues each year confirming that every essential fire safety measure on the building's schedule has been assessed by an accredited practitioner and performs to the standard it was installed under. It goes to the local council and Fire and Rescue NSW, and a copy must be displayed in the building.

The building owner: in a strata scheme, the owners corporation. Agents and contractors can run the process, but the legal obligation and the penalties for a late or missing statement sit with the owner.

Servicing is the routine inspection, testing and repair that keeps each measure working through the year. Assessment is the accredited practitioner's check, at statement time, that the measure actually performs. Buildings that only see a contractor once a year at assessment time usually fail that check, servicing is what makes sign-off possible.

The defect has to be rectified before the statement can honestly be issued for that measure. Where the deadline is close, the practical sequence is rectify, re-assess, lodge, and talk to council early if the timeline will slip, rather than lodging nothing.

With the schedule. If that is missing too, it can be reconstructed from council records or re-established through the appropriate process. Then a baseline servicing round re-tags and tests everything, and the logbooks restart from a known position. It is a defined path, not a crisis.

The maintenance framework in AS 1851 sets intervals per system type, ranging from frequent routine checks through monthly, six-monthly, annual and longer cycles. Which intervals apply to your building depends on what its schedule lists, that mapping is part of the maintenance plan.