Workplace Health & Safety Reports
Under Common Law, the Owners Corporation must ensure that they meet their Duty of Care with respect to the Health and Safety of all visitors to the common property. It is the Owners Corporations responsibility to ensure that the strata titled complex is safe and free from hazards.
A way to eliminate any known hazards is to have a professionally prepared work place health and safety report completed. A qualified consultant will arrange to inspect the property and advise the owners of any known hazards which need to be addressed. These matters will be addressed in a written document, with photo evidence. Comments and suggestions in regards to addressing the hazards will also be outlined within the report prepared by Turnkey Property Inspections.
The new workplace health and safety laws treat owners and occupiers of residential townhouses, units or flats in the same way as owners and occupiers of detached residential dwellings.
Section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 requires the owners’ corporation to keep the common property in a state of good and serviceable repair. By ensuring this obligation is met and having an annual Workplace Health & Safety Audit done by Turnkey Property Inspections, it is reasonable to assume that the owner’s corporation would be meeting their duty under section 20 of the WHS Act.
The laws that cover Workplace Health and Safety are: