Facility Management and Essential Safety Measures News and Updates The best source for Facility Management and Essential Safety Measures    1st Issue - September 2008       In This Issue Essential Safety Measures Case Study 1 - Rio Tinto Case Study 2 - East Gippsland Institute of Tafe Case Study 3 - OH&S Issues Which ESM certificate is required? What maintenance standard is required? Introducing WSMindustrial Introducing Sustainability Management Introducing compact WSM        Prior to 2005 'Essential Safety Measures' was called 'Essential Services', 'Fire Safety Measures', 'Environmental Safety Measures' in various states.        FM Innovations is the only software company to take your facility management and property management objectives, develop measurable key performance indicators around them and customise a software system that measurably helps you achieve those objectives. Our WSMenterprise software addresses all management aspects of facilities and property, including space, works, room booking, leases and contracts. And our consulting applies diagnostics to your current systems, plots the requirements of where you wish to be, and designs the modules and interfaces that give you exactly the systems infrastructure you need. Read more       Stokes Perna are a firm of Consulting Building Surveyors, being one of the founding members of the profession and have practiced in the field of Building Surveying for over 30 years. During this time they have consulted to a large number of organisations both in the private and government areas on a number of diverse projects. As experts in all facets of Building Construction, they offer a comprehensive building consulting service.     Stokes Perna can identify, audit and review the requirements for the Essential Safety Measures installed in a nominated building, and also implement maintenance procedures to ensure compliance. Stokes Perna is capable to provide the required certification for the ESM satisfying the owners obligation under the states regulations. Read more     Latest FMA Australia - Victoria Branch News Update  FM Innovations Quicklinks       FM Innovations Website FMI Newsletter Archive FMI Products Contact Us About FM Innovations  Stokes Perna Quicklinks Stokes Perna Website Building Permits Essential Safety Measures Building Consultants Contact Us Featured Reading (by Stokes Perna) - Essential Safety Measures   Are You Compliant With the release of the Building Regulations 2006 it is now a requirement for all public buildings to have an annual essential safety measures report prepared before 13 June 2009.There is also an additional requirement for buildings constructed prior to 1994 to be issued with an essential safety measures schedule. After this date, all new buildings will have an essential safety measures list as a schedule to their Occupancy Permit. read more   Case Study 1 How FM Innovations Helped Rio Tinto overcome deficiencies across their business Over the past 11 years Rio Tinto has faced problems including; 1)    Inefficient spatial management 2)    Inadequate asset management capabilities 3)    A lack of a comprehensive software program to record, monitor and manage their Works, Assets and OH&S incidents. 4)    No visitor registration and ability to print out visitor labels and track their attendance for safety and evacuation management purpose. 5)    An arduous room management system.   Click Here to Find Out More       Case Study 2 FM Innovations better utilizing East Gippsland Institute of Tafe's underperforming FM systems in a cost effective way.   FM Innovations had identified 5 distinct areas in need of improvement for East Gippsland Tafe. 1)    Alterations to their buildings were a costly and time consuming activity. 2)    Room Management.  Ad hoc bookings resulted in double bookings, unavailability of equipment and a lack of reporting. 3)    Outlying buildings were cut off resulting in an overload of paperwork and secondhand recording of data, such as maintenance requests. 4)    Problematic itemizing, monitoring and reporting on “equipment request”. 5)    Implementing all these in a cost effective way Click Here to Find Out More Case Study 3 How Stokes Perna helped a large health care provider with their OH&S Issues As building owners there is an obligation under each sates Building and Occupational Health and Safety Regulations  and various further pieces of legislation to maintain and certify the maintenance undertaken to the buildings essential safety measure’s.  Recognizing this obligation a large health care provider approached Stokes Perna organize and implement policies procedure to ensure compliance would be both achieved but also managed to achieve ongoing compliance in the years to come. Click Here to Find Out More              Breaking Stokes Perna News Which Essential Safety Measures certificate is required? A maintenance certification is not required in all states, nor is this required to be certified by a building surveyor/certifier, however under each of the states legislation the premises may be inspected by a member of the local council or fire brigade. Upon this inspection all maintenance documentation for the essential safety measures is reviewed and areas of non compliance may result in fines of $10,000 for individuals or $50,000 for companies. Even higher penalties apply, including jail terms in some states, if there is an incident and failure to maintain an essential safety measure results in a fatality.   Click Here to Find Out More.  What maintenance standard is required?  Form the introduction of the maintenance standard AS1851-2005 building owners have been unsure of their responsibilities in relation to the acceptance to the new maintenance requirements.   In some instances building owners/managers have chosen to adopt some elements of this standard for convenience and also the water saving benefits but not enthusiastic in adopting other features. Click the link for a table that indicates the building owners requirements in relation to this issue. Click Here to Find Out More.  Breaking FM Innovations News WSMindustrial A prerequisite for service providers and commercial estate agents is a content management system that not only manges their assets and maintenance on their sites but on multiple sites.  Designed for property managers who are responsible for managing multiple clients over multiple sites, this new initiative is called  WSMindustrial and offers key, unique functionality directed specifically at the larger property management companies. Click Here to Find Out More   Sustainability Management in WSM   With Green Leasing now a key requirement for many savvy tenants, and with a major push from both Government and concerned public to decrease the colossal carbon footprint in Australia, the management of the environmental impacts from the commercial sector is critical.  This new module will be designed to manage the environmental impacts of both pre-existing and new building stock namely in the areas of energy, gas, water and waste. The official launch of the Sustainability System is at The World Sustainable Building Conference 2008 at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, September 21st - 25th.  Compact Editions Compact editions will be designed to administer specific requirements.  The smaller editions will solely  focus on one area, such as; Risk management issues relating to essential services & compliance Ad hoc maintenance requests and management of work orders Room Event Management and Bookings A basic Asset Management system For More Information please call 03 9600 1646 or visit  www.fminnovations.com.au Best Regards, The Team at FM Innovations and Stokes Perna www.fminnovations.com.au www.stokesperna.com.au Upcomming Events World Sustainable Building Conference Sept 21 to Sept 25 More Vic Branch September Lunch Sept 19th  News     Contact Information   FM Innovations Level 4, 455 Bourke Street, Melbourne  VIC  3000 Tel:  (03) 9600-1646 Fax: (03) 9600 2333 sales@fminnovations.com.au www.fminnovations.com.au     Stokes Perna 506 Hampton Street Hampton VIC 3188 Phone: (03) 9521 9611 Fax: (03) 9521 0611 stokes@stokesbs.com.au www.stokesperna.com.au