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  • New guidance for BSA Part 4 requirements published by HSE

    Following the secondary legislation published last month, the Health and Safety Executive has today (19th Sept 2023) published a new set of guidance documents for the in-occupation parts of the new building safety regulatory regime for high-rise buildings in England, overseen by the Building Safety Regulator.

    The new guidance covers:

    • Preparing a Resident Engagement Strategy
    • Preparing a Safety Case Report
    • Safety Case for a High-Rise Residential Building
    • Building Safety Guides for Accountable Persons

    There is also updated guidance from the Home Office on Fire Door Checks (published 18th Sept 2023)

    You can find them all on the GOV.UK page here

    • Building Safety Regulator

  • Updated guidance for submitting Key Building Information

    The guidance from the HSE for Principal Accountable Persons on submitting structural and safety information (Key Building Information) was updated on 11th September.  The latest guidance aims to help PAPs understand what the Building Safety Regulator will ask, and how you might answer each question.

    Read the latest guidance here

     

    • Building Safety Regulator
    • Registration & KBI

  • Two weeks left to register high-rise buildings

    The deadline to register a high-rise residential building with the Building Safety regulator (BSR) is 1st October 2023. It will be a criminal offence if you have not registered an occupied building by 11:59 on 30th September.If you haven’t already started your application to register your buildings, time is running out.

    Apply to register a high-rise building online.

    The HSE is continuing to hold a series of registration clinics to help individuals or organisations that have started an application but have yet to complete it. If you register to attend one of the clinics, you will join a small group of other Accountable or Principle Accountable Persons (APs & PAPs). You can ask your questions to an expert on the registration process and get practical help to complete your application.

    You can register to join a clinic on the HSE registration page.

    Did you know?  
    HSE continuing to update the Did You Know? section on its campaigns microsite. This now includes some of the questions and issues being raised in the registration webinars and clinics. If you are still having issues with using the service you can contact the team directly using HSE’s contact form.

    Read the full update from HSE here

    • Building Safety Regulator

  • Select committee chair demands urgent answers from housing minister on RAAC

    The chair of a cross-party committee of MPs has written to the Housing Minister to request an update on the government’s assessment of risk from Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in residential buildings.

    In his letter, Clive Betts, chair of the levelling up, housing and communities committee, asked Lee Rowley what the department’s current assessment of RAAC risk is in both residential and non-domestic buildings.

    This was one of several questions, including a request for details of the latets gudiance to local authorities, information about the funding avaulable for RAA risk mitigation and for an update on what the government is doing to identiy and mitigate risks.

    Betts said that given the “urgency of these matters” he would like a response before parliment’s recess on Tuesday.

    Betts said: “There are well-publicised concerns about the use of RAAC in public buildings such as schools and hospitals but there is also concern about the use of RAAC in housing.

    “It’s important the government spells out its assessment of the risk in residential buildings, in social housing and local authorities’ estates and what guidance it is giving to residents and landlords on the risk of RAAC.”

    Read more on Housing Today

    • Structural Safety
    • RAAC

  • BSR High-rise residential buildings (HRBs) registration surgeries

    All high-rise residential buildings must be registered with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) by the 1 October 2023.

    The Building Safety Regulator will be holding clinics to help anyone who has started an application but hasn’t yet completed it.

    At the clinics you will join a small group of other Accountable or Principle Accountable Persons. You can ask an expert on the registration process any questions you might have and get practical help to complete your registration.

    You can register to join one of these sessions by selecting the surgery you wish to attend and providing your contact details.

    There will be 32 clinics in total leading up to 30th September.

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST - FURTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO DATES WILL BE SENT OUT BY THE ORGANISERS

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