Last year the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) published
the safety case 'key principles'
document to introduce the new requirements for a safety
case for high rise buildings in scope of the Building Safety Bill,
which is currently going through Parliament.
Further work to provide more detail on this is being developed
by the HSE in the form of a 'toolbox' of guides. It is expected
that the first of these will be published shortly to give a brief
overarching guide on what is required under the new safety case
regime.
The introduction of a safety case as part of the building safety
regime will introduce new roles and responsibilities for high-rise
building owners and managers and identify a building's Accountable
Persons (AP) and Building Safety Managers (BSMs).
Detailed, accurate information about the building will be
critical when registering a building and when preparing the safety
case report.
We will provide more information on the "toolbox Guides" for our
member councils when published and in the meantime more information
about safety case reports is available on the HSE website.