Building and fire safety

The Building Safety Act and Fire Safety Act came into full force in 2023. This brought significant changes to safety management of residential buildings during design, construction and occupation.

This course, delivered by those involved in the new legislation, explains the changes. This includes competence requirements, responsibilities and concepts such as the  ‘golden thread’ of recorded information throughout a building’s life.

• Detailed understanding of the legislation’s requirements and scope.
• Explanation of the competence required to deliver building safety roles.
• Practical guidance to meeting statutory and contractual obligations.

• Applying skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours while working in design construction or management of building safety in occupied residential buildings.
• Identify the reach and implications of the new regime and the fundamental legal requirements of duty holders.
• Understand the requirements for competence set out in the Building and Fire Safety Acts.
• Recognise changes to building regulations, including new responsibilities relating to specific duty holding roles.
• Explain the concept of the ‘golden thread’ and the necessity of effective safety management systems.
• Undertake a building risk assessment based on hazard identification (HAZID) and ‘bow tie’ processes.
• Identify the requirements for information from both Acts, and the prescribed information and prescribed format of all documentation associated with the Acts (for example, ‘golden thread’).

Building owners, building managers, managing agents, facilities managers, contractors providing services to residential buildings and occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals working with building owners.

The legislation generally relates to England and Wales, but some elements affect Scotland.