Alternative Solutions/Approval Documents

All audits are conducted in accordance with the requirements of Australian Standard AS 4655-2005. Provision of an Annual Fire Safety Statement is dependent upon the results of an audit.

The occupier must take reasonable steps to obtain approval documents for the building and ensure that the fire and evacuation plan reflects the conditions of the approval documents. A list of examples of alternative solution management and use conditions to be included in fire and evacuation plans are provided. Recent changes to the Building Act 1975 also create a more express requirement that alternative solution conditions be included on the certificate of classification, and that the certificate be displayed and implemented.  Occupiers must extract the relevant requirements from approval documents and any fire engineering design brief. Both the Building Act changes and the regulation changes are aimed at ensuring that buildings are managed in accordance with any conditions or requirements imposed as part of an alternative solution.