TESG General Information

You may have heard about your legal requirements to maintain the Essential Safety Measures which are the fire safety features installed within your buildings. Previously only owners of buildings built after 1994 were required to prepare annual reports however on the 13th June 2006 the Building Regulations 2006 were introduced and now requires all commercial building owners to have an Annual Essential Safety Measures Report prepared by 13th June 2009. Achieving compliance can take between 6 months to 2 years, depending on the quantity, complexity and cost of having non compliances rectified.

Total Essential Services Group are specialists in auditing buildings and implementing systems that can assist you to better understand and obtain compliance with the Essential Safety Measures legislation. At Total Essential Services Group we concern ourselves with Essential Safety Measures as this is our key focus. Total Essential Services Group can assist our clients in ensuring that their buildings are maintained in accordance with the relevant Building Regulations, Codes, Australian Standards and industry standards to achieve compliance and avoid litigation.

You may already be having most of your essential safety measures items maintained such as fire extinguishers, fire hose reels or your air conditioning, which are commonly called active systems. There may however be a number of other essential safety measures contained within your buildings called the passive systems such as exit doors, paths of travel, fire rated floors and walls, penetrations, vehicular access etc?. This is where our expertise as specialists in the Essential Safety Measures Field can assist in ensuring that contractor logbooks are up to date and the required approval documentation is provided for all your buildings to achieve compliance.