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RSH finalises requirements for electrical safety checks TSM

All large social housing landlords in England will be required publish the electrical safety checks TSM for the first time covering the 2026/27 reporting year.

From:
Regulator of Social Housing
Published
11 June 2026

The Regulator of Social Housing has introduced its new Tenant Satisfaction Measure (TSM) for electrical safety checks.

The TSM comes into effect from today (Thursday 11 June 2026). All large social housing landlords in England - those with more than 1,000 homes - will be required publish the electrical safety checks TSM for the first time covering the 2026/27 reporting year.

Small landlords must publish for their reporting years ending 31 March 2027 onwards.

RSH introduced the TSMs in 2022, including management information TSMs covering fire safety, gas safety, asbestos safety, water safety and lift safety.

An electrical safety check TSM was not included at that time because the government was planning to consult on this area, but landlords were still required to ensure they were meeting all legal requirements.

Now that the government has brought in new requirements, RSH can move ahead with implementing the electrical safety checks TSM as part of the wider building safety TSMs.

The final requirements took into account feedback from social housing tenants, landlords, service providers and other interested organisations from a consultation, which ran alongside one for the Transparency, Influence & Accountability Standard.

RSH Director of Strategy Will Perry said: “The new TSM does not change landlords’ duties in meeting legal requirements relating to electrical safety – they should have been doing this anyway and it has always been an important and integral part of our regulation.

“The building safety TSMs aim to provide a baseline level of assurance - a necessary foundation to ensuring a robust approach to building safety compliance and keeping tenants safe.”

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Information for editors:

  1. Tenant Satisfaction Measures can be found on the RSH website.

  2. The electrical safety checks TSM has been designed to work alongside the other building safety TSMs to provide a clear and consistent set of TSMs that can be read alongside each other. In line with the other building safety TSMs, the electrical safety checks TSM covers statutory obligations both within the home and in communal areas.

  3. The electrical safety checks TSM does not change the specific expectation of landlords that they ‘must identify and meet all legal requirements that relate to the health and safety of tenants in their homes and communal areas’. It also does not remove the requirement for landlords to self-report any material issues that relate to non-compliance or potential non-compliance with the standards.

  4. The consultation confirmed strong agreement (87% of respondents) that the TSM will provide an appropriate level of information about landlord performance in carrying out required electrical safety checks. Given this level of support, RSH has not made significant changes to the text of the TSM. Incremental improvements were made including adding further clarity on the timescales that apply to communal area checks for the purposes of the TSM.

  5. The TSM is based on the last day of a landlord’s reporting year, which for large landlords is as at 31 March. The first results will therefore be based on 31 March 2027.

  6. Details of the TI&A Standard consultation are on the RSH website. The outcome for the whole consultation has not been completed yet.

  7. For media enquires please contact Vicky Moore vicky.moore@rsh.gov.uk or Christian Cosby christian.cosby@rsh.gov.uk For general enquiries, please contact enquiries@rsh.gov.uk

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Published 11 June 2026