Last updated: 22nd May 2023.
Registered providers of social housing and residential care homes conducting regulatory activities continue to face a surge in statutory housing compliance legislation. As such, registered providers are grappling with increased responsibilities in terms of maintenance and ensuring the health and safety of residents, staff, operatives, and visitors of a building.
Need help ensuring your health and safety obligations are independently tested and met?
As a leading compliance consultancy offering robust housing compliance governance, we can provide a Housing Compliance Health Check which will help you satisfy your obligations and ensure safety.
The Housing Compliance Health Check covers the ‘big 6’ areas of compliance (Gas, Asbestos, Fire, Electrical, Water Hygiene, and Lifts) and will help you assess:
- Your levels of compliance with statutory legislation and identification of any breaches of compliance or non-conformity with codes of practice. The Housing Compliance Health Check also provides clear, practical and time-bound advice on how to rectify these areas.
- If your approach to managing housing compliance reflects industry best practice and if not, provide you with a clear action plan of what you need to do to achieve best practice.
- If your housing compliance strategy, policies, procedures and other supporting documents are ‘fit for purpose’, accessible, and in a format that is easy to communicate, understand, and execute across your business and to all relevant stakeholders.
- Whether your staff, contractors, and other partners are clear about their roles and responsibilities for managing compliance, and health and safety obligations.
- Whether you have a robust inspection based approach to housing compliance that helps you proactively identify risks and ensure actions are subsequently taken to eliminate, mitigate and/or manage the risks in an evidence based way.
- Whether your housing compliance system for capturing and maintaining records of all appliances within stock owned by you is ‘fit for purpose’, including the date they were last inspected and/or serviced, and the due date of the next inspection and/or service, and whether this can be trusted as your ‘one version of the truth’.
- That you have relevant documentation and records to support your compliance activity and that you can evidence that follow-on actions are completed and ‘closed down’.
For more information about how a Compliance Health Check can assist you, please get in touch here.