BALSafe prepares Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) assessments to measure your buildings potential exposure to the ramifications and effects of bushfires. They consider what building materials and construction techniques you will need to develop your property based on how close or far you are from a certain type of vegetation ensuring a compliance rating, ideally, within BAL-29 or lower.
A BAL report observes potential risk and provides to reduce the risk of your house igniting through separation from the bush and the use of specific less or non-combustible construction materials.
As a country, we must reconsider how we handle severe weather situations like bushfires and get a deeper appreciation for what it means to live in harmony with the Australian bush.
Bushfires are Australia’s most devastating natural disaster.
Although bushfires do play a significant role in Australia’s eco systems, they are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of global warming. According to the most recent bushfire royal enquiry, the increasingly destructive fire weather, such as record high temperatures, dryness, and less rainfall, would render present disaster management techniques inadequate.
BALSafe recognises the significance of Indigenous Australians’ use of cultural burning in the preservation of Australian landscapes.
Understanding the capabilities of blaze control necessitates acknowledging that cultural burning techniques won’t avoid bushfires and that this shouldn’t be the expectation or the goal in order to live with and on the Australian terrain in a respectful and harmonious manner.
By bringing fire back into the landscape, cultural burning helps to enhance the health of the bush, bring Indigenous people back to Country, and reduce fuels so that bushfires are easier to control when they do break out.
Instead of fighting the landscape, we should prepare ourselves to coexist with it and its potential for igniting.
BALSafe is BPAD Bushfire Planning & Design Accredited (BPAD52359) in Western Australia.
