Eleven multi-unit properties will be investigated during the fire safety audit, which is being run by engineering consultancy Norman Disney and Young.

The Community Services Directorate would not comment on which properties would be assesed during the audit.

However, it has been confirmed that one of the properties is Havelock House on Northbourne Avenue.

Havelock Housing Association managing director Neil Skipper said the audit allowed the association to make the building safer.

"Havelock House was built between 1948 and 1951, so it is quite an old building now," he said.

"We are always very conscientious about fire safety. We are working through what we can do to improve the building even further."

Mr Skipper said the audit had found there was a particular need to make it easier for residents to get out of the building in the event of a fire.

The fire safety audit of Havelock House was a requirement of the association's service funding agreement with the ACT government, he added.

The Community Services Directorate has paid $45,000 for the fire safety audit, which is expected to be finished by the end of June.

A five-year-old public housing block in Braddon has sat empty for almost two years after tenants were moved for what the ACT government said were fire safety and construction issues.

The government is now in a dispute resolution process with the builder, Bellerive Homes, which argues the building was designed and signed off by the government in 2012.

A contract for the work warns inspectors about the possibility of coming across "potentially aggressive" Housing ACT tenants.

"Staff escorts shall be provided as required based on ACT Housing advice," read the contract.

"Potentially aggressive residents must be removed from the premises prior to inspection."

The contract also specified that engineers could only conduct a visual inspection of the properties.

"No commissioning, testing or verification of performance to be undertaken," the contract read.

"The audit excludes identifying combustible cladding or facade materials which cannot accurately be done without invasive or destructive testing."

A Community Services Directorate spokeswoman said hydrants, sprinkler systems and the presence of emergency exits would be a focus of the audit.

"Housing ACT takes the safety and wellbeing of all its tenants very seriously and regularly undertakes various types of audits as part of its portfolio management," the spokeswoman said.

"This is being carried out in collaboration with the total facilities manager Spotless, Access Canberra and a private consultancy company."