Safety management systems for high-rise residential buildings
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Abstract
Provides guidance for accountable persons of high-rise residential buildings to understand and manage a safety management system. Looks at: getting started, being proportionate, continuous improvement, plan: determine the policy and plan for implementation, do: assess risks and implement the plan, check: measure performance, act: review performance and act on lessons learned.
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/safety-management-systems-for-high-rise-residential-buildings 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
- Building control, England
- Special subject areas
- Fire
- Legal issues and management
- Building control
- Health and safety
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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