Assessing safety risks in high-rise residential buildings: a detailed guide
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Abstract
Provides guidance for accountable persons of high-rise residential buildings to assess building safety risks. Looks at: the purpose of assessing building safety risks, risk assessment team, what to assess, all reasonable steps, risk assessment methods and recording the assessment.
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/assessing-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.
Subjects
- Fire
- Building control
- Building control, England
- Special subject areas
- Health and safety
- Legal issues and management
Publisher History
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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NBS
NBS has produced specification systems and information products for construction industry professionals for more than 40 years. The National Building Specification is the recognised UK national standard and is used by over 5,000 organisations. NBS is part of RIBA Enterprises Ltd.
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