The Building Safety Act 2022, which came into force on 1 April 2023, was introduced to improve the design, construction, and management of higher-risk buildings following the tragic failures in building safety that led to the Grenfell Tower Fire. The overarching objective of these ground-breaking reforms is to ensure that homes across the country are safer.
The Building Safety Regulator will enforce the Act, ensuring that all responsible and accountable persons operate in accordance with prescribed requirements, including the collation and storage of key information relating to each building. This ‘Golden Thread‘ of information will ensure that all relevant parties – both current and future – can fully understand a building and the steps needed to keep it and its occupants safe.
In accordance with the Act, a principal accountable person for an occupied higher-risk building must establish and operate an effective “mandatory occurrence reporting system”. Specified information must be gathered, retained, and kept up-to-date over time, with the ability to provide the Regulator with this information when requested and in a specified format (a Safety Case Report).
The need to demonstrate the effective management of building safety risks will encourage those that are accountable (typically freeholders and landlords) to take a ‘whole building’ approach to fire and structural safety in higher-risk buildings. Throughout a building’s lifecycle – through any changes in building ownership or delivery teams – this approach will ensure that the right people can make the best possible decisions at the right times to design, construct, and operate the building more safely and effectively.
Archidata can provide information that meets all ‘Golden Thread’ requirements, and we can help ensure you have the appropriate systems in place to store your information in a secure yet searchable format.
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