Golden Thread & Safety Management Systems
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Today, 9th July 2026, the Building Safety Minster, Samantha Dixon published a Ministerial Statement setting out the steps the Government is taking to improve the effectiveness, proportionality and overall operation of the building safety regime.
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On 30 January 2025, Andrew Saunders from the Building Safety Regulator hosted an exclusive webinar for members of The Property Institute, and their APs/PAPs, covering the latest insights and guidance on the BAC Application process for HRBs.
The webinar covered:
- Understanding the BAC assessment process
- Learning what criteria the assessors will focus on for each element of the application
- Preparing your BAC application to the standard required
- How the application will be assessed, and who by
- What criteria will be assessed in the Safety Case Report, Residents Engagement Strategy and mandatory occurrence reporting system information
TPI members can access the webinar recording here
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The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) is championing and supporting the delivery of safe and high-quality buildings for those who live and work in them.
The Building Safety workstream of the Construction Leadership Council have today (27 August 2024) published guidance on the golden thread of information requirements for higher-risk buildings. This guidance will support dutyholders and accountable persons to deliver a golden thread for their building.
The guidance sets out the golden thread information that dutyholders and accountable persons will need to generate, keep, maintain and handover during design, through construction, handover and completion of the building and into occupation.
The full Golden Thread Guidance is available here. A Summary of the guidance is also available, and can be downloaded here.
As the new regime develops, this guidance will almost certainly need to develop with it. The CLC would like to invite constructive feedback on this guidance to support this process.
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HSE’s second building safety conference, which took place in May in Birmingham was attended by over 1,400 industry leaders, regulators and resident representatives.
The conference featured almost 40 sessions and panel discussions providing detailed information on a breadth of topics including:
the building control application process for high-rise residential buildings
ways of working for the building control profession
more information on how to build a safety case and a resident engagement planIf you missed the opportunity to attend the BSR conference in May, you can watch back all of the key note speeches and sessions on HSE’s Youtube channel.
Amongst the many topics covered, sessions include updates on : Building Control Assessment process, Resident Engagement, Building Control profession, the Golden Thread, and Planning Gateways.
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The BSR has today published a ‘Safety Case Toolkit’ guide which is accessible here.
The information within the guide is aimed at accountable persons (defined under section 84 of the Building Safety Act 2022) to assist them in preparing a safety case report. A safety case report must demonstrate that all reasonable steps have been taken to prevent building safety risks happening and reduce the seriousness if they do.