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Managing safety risks in high-rise residential buildings: a detailed guide
Publication Year
2024
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Provides guidance for accountable persons of high-rise residential buildings to manage risks. Looks at: taking all reasonable steps, checking existing safety measures, safety management system, changes to the building and refurbishment, keeping information about risk prevention and protective measures, stopping or reducing the likelihood of risk and reducing the severity of an incident if one occurs.
Document History
Last updated: 18 September 2024 - Updated to include the definition of a high-rise residential building. Information updated about the purpose of assessing risks, risk assessment teams and safety risk scenarios. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-guides-for-accountable-persons/managing-safety-risks-in-high-rise-residential-buildings-a-detailed-guide 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: 19 September 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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