The Ontario Association of Certified Home Inspectors is a not-for-profit corporation established by letters patent on March 12, 2012. It was created to provide province-specific support for Home Inspectors and consumers of their services.
The Association is a self-regulating volunteer-run, NPO the provides both paid and unpaid memberships.
It awards members, who have proven to have achieved and maintained a high standard of education and skills, the Canadian-Certified Home Inspector.
The association has also been stakeholders in a number of regulatory developments including:
* working with
Transport Canada on
Regulation of UAVs in Canada,
* engaging with
CSA Group in the development of the
CSA A770-16 Home Inspection Standard,
* worked with the
Workplace Safety & Insurance Board on the problem around the mandatory registration of construction workers which captured Home Inspectors. After 3-years of negotiations, in 2018 the home Inspection Profession in Ontario was moved from WSIB rate class G to rate class I removing the mandatory registration process.
* Stakeholders in the
J. Douglas Cunningham
John Douglas Cunningham (born October 22, 1940 in Kingston, Ontario) is the former Associate Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He is the son of D.G. (Ben) Cunningham and Isabelle Simpson.
Cunningham attended the Universi ...
review of the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act.
* Working with
Tarion
Tarion, formerly known as the Ontario New Home Warranty Program, is a not-for-profit consumer protection organization established by the Government of Ontario in 1976 to administer the province’s new home warranty program. It is financed entirel ...
on development of a training and qualification program for Home Inspectors to provide consultative services to consumers going through the new home purchasing and ownership process.
In 2018 a decision was made to adopt the newly released
CSA A770-16 Home Inspection Standard as the only standard to be used by members for performing residential Home Inspections in Ontario. This decision was announced to members of the Association in 2019, with a deadline for compliance of February 28, 2020.
With five classes of membership, and a register of over 1050 members of all types, of all the Inspector associations in Canada, OntarioACHI represents the majority of the
Home Inspection profession in Ontario.
References
Home inspection
Organizations established in 2012
Organizations based in Ontario
2012 establishments in Ontario
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