Building Regulations 2006 requires most residential buildings to prepare an annual essential services report. The report covers building items and measures for resident’s safety and protection, including fire extinguishers, exit pathways, and service agreements for inspection.

It is for this reason that it is essential for strata managers and owners corporations to ensure all contractors and employed tradespeople have the correct insurances and licences to operate.   If you don’t validate a contractor’s credentials, you expose your business and yourself to enormous risk through being sued by an injured third party or potentially worse – being prosecuted by Work Cover.

For owner’s corporations, there are two options. You can either do the checking yourself or employ a specialist contractor management company to do it on your behalf. The other option is to engage an expert contractor compliance company to assist you.