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  • Register as a building inspector

    Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Registered building inspectors

    Use this guidance to understand the role, legal responsibilities and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Approved Document B: Fire safety - frequently asked questions

    Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • Building Safety Fund guidance for applications made in 2020

    Information on the Building Safety Fund (BSF).

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Registered building control approver (RBCA) assessment criteria

    This guide will help you understand the assessment criteria needed when you apply to register your business as a building control approver.

    • From: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
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  • Inspection of building control bodies

    This page explains the Building Safety Regulator's inspection selection criteria and how it will prioritise the inspection of building control bodies.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Safety in high-rise residential buildings: accountable persons 

    Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Submitting mandatory occurrence notices and reports

    A guide for principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons to report incidents or risks of structural failure, or the spread of fire to the Building Safety Regulator.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Operating a mandatory occurrence reporting system

    How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.

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  • Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread

    The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.

    • From: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
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  • Developer remediation contract

    Government wrote to developers on 30 January 2023 asking them to sign a contract committing them to remediate unsafe buildings which they developed.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • ​​Responsible Actors Scheme

    The Responsible Actors Scheme was launched in July 2023. Eligible developers who do not join the Scheme and comply with its conditions will have planning and building control prohibitions imposed on them.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Complain about a building safety risk in a high-rise building

    Find out how to complain about a building safety risk, or the performance of an accountable person or principal accountable person, in a high-rise residential building.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Find a high-rise residential building

    Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report

    Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings, including high-rise residential buildings, to the BSR.  

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Contact the Building Safety Regulator

    Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

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  • Register your business as a building control approver

    All private sector businesses that want to do building control work in England and Wales under the Building Act 1984 (as amended) must apply to register with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

    • From: Health and Safety Executive
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  • Developer remediation contract: resident factsheet

    This factsheet provides a summary of key information about the contract for residents living in buildings where developers have pledged to remediate historic fire safety defects.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Non-determination applications for higher-risk buildings procedures: applying to the Secretary of State

    Changes to Section 30(A) of the Building Act 1984.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Building Safety Fund: process guide for residents

    The Building Safety Fund (BSF) provides funding to fix life safety fire risks associated with cladding in buildings over 18 metres high. This guide explains the process.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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