Sarahs said:
I have been an owner here for 6 years, and have NEVER had an inspection. Our SM assures me that we have always had compliance certificates issued.
My immediate response is that it's good that you are finally geting fire safety checks rather than just having compliance signed off based on outdated paperwork. Your home may be fire safe but what about the flats all around you. Just last week a block of units had to be evacuated because of a fire started by a dropped cigarette.
Austman said:
How has the OC arranged access to all the lots? That in itself is nearly mission impossible for our OC!
We have annual fire checks and the OC gets everyone to comply by telling them if they don't make arrangement for access via the building manager then they have to ring the fire saftey people themselves and pay additional costs for an individual check. Seems to work
The new (NSW) memorandum on who is responsible for what suggests that hard-wired internal fire alarms that go back to a central board for the building are the OC's responsibility while self-contained systems within the lot are the lot owners'.