Australian Standards

Earlier today, I received an email from a reputable consultant in workplace safety. Their email outlined "Height safety by design - practical considerations"...

In the middle of the email was the following paragraph;

Prevention of Falls During Maintenance Tasks

A friend of mine (Andrew) in Sydney (New South Wales) has asked me the following question;

Our client is telling me I need to sign off on the annual statement to the system performance standard.

Our contract is to maintain the equipment in accordance with AS1851.

My question is;

• Do I have to sign off to the performance standard being AS 1670 for example and if so does this make us liable for the whole building and where each detector is placed?
• Would I need to go around and measure distances and the like to certify the system?

Standards Australia have published a their list of projects for April 2007, there are a few projects that relate to Fire Protection (FP) as listed below.