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Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons
Publication Year
2024
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Sets out the roles and legal duties for the accountable person and the principal accountable person of a high-rise residential building. Gives clarity to who is accountable, what the legal duties are and other additional duties for the principal accountable person and what enforcement action may be taken if there is a breach of duty.
Document History
Last updated: 18 September 2024 - Removed AP duty of keeping and managing a safety case. Removed PAP duty of putting together a safety case for the building. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/safety-in-high-rise-residential-buildings-accountable-persons and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 5 April 2023.
Publisher Information
Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive work to protect the health and safety of people in the workplace by minimising risks. They achieve this through research, information and advice, promoting training, new or revised regulations and codes of practice, inspection, investigation and enforcement.
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