“False positives” are bad but “True negatives” can remove a lot of guesswork
One of our clients recently ran an audit for Hazardous Materials Report for all their managed properties and they discovered a number of buildings have no Hazardous Materials report. They now have to try to work out if these buildings
- are missing a crucial report or
- don’t need one because they were built after December 31st 2003. (Australian Code of Practice)
A simple True Negative statement solves this problem. For all buildings that don’t require a Hazardous Materials report, they now have a simple a one-page document, signed by a competent person, that states something along the lines of
They now simply need to check that 100% of their buildings has
- Either a “Hazardous Materials report – True Negative statement”
- Or a “Hazardous Materials report – None found”
- Or a “Hazardous Materials report” with a “Hazardous Materials Management Plan and Hazardous Materials Register”
We would love to hear of any other instances where you think a True Negative statement would help in improving compliance reporting, or if you would to discuss how this approach might help you, give us a call. Happy to help.
