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The best we can do as active strata owners is ensure we have by-laws/rules in place to ensure residents are aware of their obligations that any equipment they bring into the complex complies with relevant Australian standards whether its gas bbq’s, lighting, lamps, tv, any sort of charger or battery. Owners corporations would probably be well advised to undertake a “test and tag” activity to identify all component plugged into outlets on common property is identified.
Yes, this may well be the way we will move – i.e. highlighting individual responsibility.
Advice now received from Tasmania’s CBOS department indicates that the hazard of runaway fire arising from clustering lithium batteries may be greater than the hazard of a single localised fire in one apartment.
I’m not sure what the additional cost of “test and tag”ging for privately owned equipment in common areas would amount to.