NSW fire safety compliance guides
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FireSignal publishes reference guides on fire safety compliance for buildings in New South Wales. Every guide names its sources and shows the date it was last verified.
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How many NSW fire safety practitioners are endorsed for each measure?
A complete count of the 1,044 accredited Fire Safety Assessment practitioners on the NSW register, broken down across all 36 endorsement categories. No measure is held by more than 70% of them.
How to check your fire safety practitioner
A step-by-step method for checking whether the practitioner assessing your building holds current NSW accreditation covering the measures on your Fire Safety Schedule — including the second register almost nobody checks.
NSW Annual Fire Safety Statement: what it is, who signs it, and what changed
A clause-level guide to the NSW Annual Fire Safety Statement — the three-month assessment window, the exact due-date rule, what must be on the statement, the display obligation, the penalties, and the February 2026 and February 2027 changes.
What you're signing when you sign an AFSS declaration
For strata managers, facility managers and owners' agents: what the Annual Fire Safety Statement declaration actually commits you to, the two things the paperwork doesn't show you, and what a defensible check looks like.
Who signs your building's fire safety statement, and what it means
For strata committees and lot owners: who actually signs the Annual Fire Safety Statement for your scheme, what that declaration covers, and the one reasonable question to ask your strata manager.
Why two fire reports on the same building disagree
Two inspections of the same building can produce very different defect lists and very different quotes. Four reasons why — including one that is entirely legitimate and one that is an incentive problem nobody in the industry names.
What FireSignal is
FireSignal is a reference publication. It reports what public registers and published regulation said, and the date they were read. It does not certify, assess or approve anything, and it is not legal advice.
Who publishes it
FireSignal is published by Reg Mon Aus Pty Ltd. Guides are written and edited by Nigell Lee, Director. How FireSignal guides are sourced and verified.