Compliance cover
Protect your investment, and keep your tenants safe
Comprehensive coverage
Don't get caught out by changing legislation
✅ Peace of mind
With coverage all year round, breathe easy knowing you’re always compliant with evolving State and Federal legislation.
✅ No surprise bills
✅ No surprise bills
Smooth cash flow and avoid unexpected expenses with a fixed, monthly fee deducted directly from rent.
Compliance cover
$19 fixed monthly fee
- Comprehensive coverage of smoke alarms, electrical safety switches and corded windows and blinds
- Unlimited legally-required inspections plus additional checks
- Photographic certificates of compliance, favoured by insurance companies
- 5-year warranty on all products and services
- Complimentary hardware maintenance
- 24/7 support
- Peace of mind your investment is 100% compliant and your tenants are safe
When it comes to compliance, you can't risk mistakes
30%
of rental properties are non-compliant on first visit
2
children die a year from non-compliant blinds and curtains
50k+
words of State and Federal legislation rental properties must adhere to
Smoke alarms
Smoke alarms
Smoke alarm maintenance is governed by both State and Federal legislation and any person who does not comply with the relevant legislation is guilty of an offence. Owners who fail to take every practical step to ensure the safety of their tenants can face a multitude of unpleasant and unwanted consequences that can be easily avoided with the right guidance.
In South Australia, landlords are legally required to meet minimum standards which include:
- In rented homes the owner of the property is responsible for the installation of working smoke alarms and must ensure that they are maintained.
- Home owners are required to install battery powered or hard-wired (240 volt mains powered) smoke alarms
- Alarms must meet the Australian Standard AS3786:2014 and batteries must be changed annually
- One or more smoke alarms must be installed in every dwelling in locations that will provide reasonable warning to occupants of sleeping areas so that they may safely evacuate in the event of a fire.
To read the full legislation, please review the National Construction Code and the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017
For more information on your obligations as a residential landlord, please visit the South Australian Government website here.
Safety switches
Safety switches
Failure to install and regularly test a property’s safety switches can result in the property being silently at risk and open to potential dangers. Safety switches protect your tenants and anyone visiting the home from electrical shock, and the South Australian Government strongly recommends that rental properties have working safety switches installed. PCA will test and replace on the spot (at no cost) any safety switch that isn’t in correct working order. Helping landlords avoid paying additional electrician call outs and charges. Safety switches save lives! For more information, please visit www.sa.gov.au.
Corded blinds
Corded blinds
Due to the potential strangulation hazard, landlords are required to ensure that all corded window coverings are properly fitted and maintained in accordance with complex safety standards. Blind and curtain cords are a strangulation hazard to children; two children die a year in Australia from non-compliant blinds and curtains. All residential properties that have any corded internal window coverings must have the cords fitted with the prescribed safety devices and warning labels. Even if you haven’t installed corded blinds or window fittings, your tenants could at any time so it’s critical that your property is checked by a qualified compliance technician for non-compliance.
To ensure you are compliant, you are legally required to meet minimum standards for installation, which include:
- The corded internal window covering must be installed in a way that ensures a loose cord cannot form a loop 220 mm or longer at or less than 1,600 mm above floor level.
- The corded internal window covering must be installed in accordance with the installation instructions on any retail packaging for the covering
- A cleat used to secure a cord must be installed at least 1,600 mm above floor level.
- A person installing a corded internal window covering must attach a label to it containing the name and contact details of the person or company responsible for the installation and must not remove any warning label or swing tag supplied with the corded internal window covering.
To read the full legislation, please review the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard - Corded Internal Window Coverings) Regulations 2010
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