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Asset tracking and compliance for NSW facilities teams

Keep AS 1851 fire records, test-and-tag intervals and pre-starts on every asset across your NSW sites and client contracts, ready for an audit or a SafeWork NSW visit.

Per contractevidence by client and site
AS 1851fire service on each asset
AS/NZS 3760test-and-tag intervals tracked
Jarrod Milford

Jarrod Milford

Commercial Director

|Reviewed by Lachlan McRitchie
Updated 27 June 2026

MapTrack helps New South Wales facilities and field service teams meet their duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, enforced by SafeWork NSW. It keeps AS 1851 fire equipment service, AS/NZS 3760 test-and-tag records and pre-starts attached to each asset across every site and contract.

NSW compliance

The compliance landscape for NSW facilities

Facilities, cleaning and multi-site field service teams in New South Wales work under the harmonised Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and the WHS Regulation, enforced by SafeWork NSW. As a PCBU you carry duties for the equipment your workers use and, often, for plant and electrical safety in the buildings you maintain on behalf of clients. The compliance question is rarely just your own gear; it is the evidence your client expects you to keep on the assets in their facility.

Two recurring streams dominate facilities compliance in NSW. The first is electrical: portable equipment and leads carry recurring in-service inspection and testing under AS/NZS 3760, and an expired test tag is one of the most common write-ups in a facilities audit. The second is fire and essential services: building fire equipment is serviced on the routines in AS 1851, and the records have to be evidenced per asset and per site, not signed off on a generic sheet.

Because facilities teams run across many client sites, the hard part is keeping evidence attributable. A maintenance record that is not tied to the specific extinguisher, the specific pump or the specific scrubber, on the specific site, is hard to defend when a client or a SafeWork NSW inspector asks.

Primary legislation
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) + WHS Regulation
Regulator
SafeWork NSW
Electrical safety
AS/NZS 3760 in-service testing (test and tag)
Fire equipment
AS 1851 routine service of fire protection systems

Standards

Standards across NSW facilities work

These standards drive the recurring compliance tasks on a facilities contract. MapTrack keeps the service interval, the result and the next-due date on each asset and site.

  • AS 1851

    Routine service of fire protection systems and equipment. Six-monthly and annual service of extinguishers, hose reels and systems must be evidenced per asset.

  • AS/NZS 3760

    In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment. Test-and-tag intervals belong on the asset record; expired tags are the most common audit write-up.

  • WHS Regulation

    Plant, electrical safety and general duties for a PCBU. Pre-starts and equipment checks for cleaning plant, EWPs and access equipment carry documented obligations.

  • AS 1657 / AS 1851 essential services

    Access, height safety and essential safety measures. Many NSW building owners require an annual essential services evidence trail from their facilities provider.

The problem

What slows NSW facilities teams down

These are the recurring problems we hear from facilities and field service managers running multiple NSW client contracts.

Test tags expire across dozens of sites

AS/NZS 3760 intervals are easy to miss when equipment is spread across many client sites. An expired tag found in a client audit reflects badly on the contractor.

Fire service records sit on generic sheets

AS 1851 service signed off on a site sheet, rather than against the specific extinguisher or pump, is hard to reconstruct when a building owner asks for proof.

Evidence is not attributable to the client

When compliance records are not tied to the specific asset and site, producing a clean report for a single client contract turns into hours of spreadsheet work.

Equipment moves between depots and sites

Scrubbers, EWPs and access gear move between depots and customer sites with no clear custody trail, so utilisation and servicing slip.

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NSW Facilities compliance FAQ

NSW facilities, cleaning and field service teams work under the harmonised Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and the WHS Regulation, enforced by SafeWork NSW. As a PCBU you carry duties for the equipment your workers use, alongside electrical safety and fire equipment obligations for the assets you maintain on client sites.

MapTrack keeps the test-and-tag interval and result on each item of electrical equipment, wherever it is across your NSW client sites. The asset record carries the last test date and the next-due date, and MapTrack alerts you before an interval lapses, so an expired tag does not surface in a client audit.

Yes. Each extinguisher, hose reel, pump and fire system gets its own asset record carrying its AS 1851 service routine, the last service date and the next-due date. Service is evidenced against the specific asset and site rather than a generic sheet, which is what a building owner or auditor expects to see.

Yes. MapTrack lets you filter and export compliance evidence by client contract, site, asset group or date range. Instead of rebuilding a report from spreadsheets, you generate a clean, attributable record for one client in minutes.

MapTrack is priced per asset, from around a dollar per asset per month, with unlimited users. That means every field technician, supervisor and site manager can use it without a per-seat licence, which suits facilities teams with large, mobile workforces across many NSW sites.

Both can carry duties. Under the harmonised Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW), each PCBU with management or control has obligations, and duties can be shared across the building owner, the head contractor and the facilities provider. In practice the owner expects the facilities contractor to keep the AS 1851 fire service and AS/NZS 3760 electrical evidence current on the assets in their facility. MapTrack keeps that evidence attributable per asset and per site, so when responsibility is questioned, the record shows exactly what was done and when.

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