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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_%26_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 review of the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act.
 * Working with Tarion on development of a training and qualification program for Home Inspectors to provide consultative services to consumers gong 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 28th, 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.

Category:Home inspection Category:Organizations established in 2012 Category:Organizations based in Ontario