![]() ![]() Recent high-rise fires, including that in a block of student flats in Bolton in November 2019, have highlighted that many building owners have still not taken sufficient measures to ensure the safety of residents in buildings at all heights. Advice on building safety for multi-storey, multi-occupied buildings HSE’s vast experience of working in partnership with industry and others to improve lives will ensure people are confident the creation of the new regulator is in good hands. We are proud the government has asked HSE to establish the new Building Safety Regulator. Dame Judith Hackitt will chair a Board to oversee the transition.Ĭhair of the Health and Safety Executive, Martin Temple said: With a strong track record of working with industry and other regulators to improve safety, they will draw on experience and the capabilities of other regulators to implement the new regime. It will raise building safety and performance standards, including overseeing a new, more stringent regime for higher-risk buildings. The Health and Safety Executive ( HSE) will quickly begin to establish the new regulator in shadow form immediately, ahead of it being fully established, following legislation. Today’s package of measures includes: Building Safety Regulator There can be no more excuses for delay, I’m demanding immediate action. Unless swift progress is seen in the coming weeks, I will publicly name building owners where action to remediate unsafe ACM cladding has not started. That’s why today I’m announcing a major package of reforms, including establishing the Building Safety Regulator within the Health and Safety Executive to oversee the new regime and publishing consolidated guidance for building owners. Progress on improving building safety needs to move significantly faster to ensure people are safe in their homes and building owners are held to account. The government is committed to bringing about the biggest change in building safety for a generation. Housing Secretary Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP said: The Prime Minister and Housing Secretary also met with bereaved, survivors and residents of the Grenfell Tower fire in Downing Street last week. ![]() The package comes as the Prime Minister has written to the chairman of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, updating him on the government’s response to Phase 1. Mr Jenrick confirmed the government will consult on extending the ban on combustible materials to buildings below 18 metres and we will seek views on how risks are assessed within existing buildings to inform future policy. While government action in this area has led to considerable progress to remove unsafe cladding, there are still some building owners who have been too slow to act. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Jenrick also made clear that from next month he will start to name building owners where remediation has not started to remove unsafe Aluminium Composite Material ( ACM) cladding from their buildings. To give effective oversight of the design, construction and occupation of high-risk buildings – a regulator will be at the heart of a new regime – and established as part of the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE).īuilding owners are responsible for ensuring their buildings are safe and where there is no clear plan for remediation, the government will work with local authorities to support them in their enforcement options. The slow pace of improving building safety standards will not be tolerated, the Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick warned today (20 January 2020), as he announced measures that go further and faster to ensure residents are safe in their homes. Building owners who have not taken action to make their buildings safe will be named from next month.Response to Phase 1 of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry published.Government sets out clarified and consolidated advice for building owners, proposal to extend cladding ban, update on fire sprinklers.Housing Secretary announces the new Building Safety Regulator within the Health and Safety Executive, to be established immediately.Government committed to delivering the biggest change in building safety for a generation. ![]()
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