Overview
The building and fire safety regulatory space has seen much changed over the last few years. The landmark Building Safety Bill Act has come into law, the Fire Safety Act has now commenced, and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 have been published and will come into force from January 2023.
However, all that is just the beginning. Many of the details around the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of information management or creating and maintaining the golden thread are still due to come down the line.
What are the key challenges for the profession and what are some of the solutions that can be put in place in anticipation of these greater demands? Where are the biggest information gaps? And how to go about it filling them? The HSE over the last two weeks released some guidance on what building information should be included in safety cases and reports, yet the secondary legislation due to be consultation on is still to be published.
On Fire risk assessments, we have finally seen some stronger competence requirements being put in place via the Building Safety Act. What are the questions that organisations and people should be asking themselves and how can they document ongoing delivery against the FRA?
Join us Wednesday to find out.
Your panel for this episode:
- Sofie Hooper (host): Head of Policy, IWFM
- Robert Norton: UK Senior Account Manager - Fire, Health & Safety, Plan Radar
- Anthony Taylor, Proprietor Resolve Risk, Former Chair Working Group 8 BSM, Interim Chair Building Safety Alliance and Chair Steering Group for PAS 8673
- Jack White: Technical Manager at Clarion Housing Group
Speakers
Sofie Hooper
Sofie Hooper leads on the IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated.
Covering a wide range of activities and areas, sustainability, workplace and building safety form the core agenda. Sofie has been leading on IWFM’s Building Safety Manager work programme, feeding into the legislative process towards the Building Safety Bill. She provided the Secretariat for the Competence Steering Group’s Working Group 8, which developed the Building Safety Managers competence framework.
In addition to being the co-author of the Group’s report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management, she is a regular contributor to Facilitate. Building on WG8’s recommendations, Sofie is a part of the Interim Executive of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross sector collaboration which is working to improve holistic building safety competence across the occupation phase. She is also a part of the Steering Committee for the DLUCH sponsored PAS 8673, which is setting the competence specification for Building Safety Managers.
Robert Norton
Anthony Taylor MSc, HonRICS, EurOSHM, MBCI, CMIOSH, MIIRSM, PIEMA
Interim Chair Building Safety Alliance, Chair of CSG Working Group 8, Industry Lead for PAS 8673, and member Steering Group for PAS 8671 and PAS 8672. Member of BSI Committee for Standards in Built Environment CBP/1, Member of H&S Committee for The Property Institute (TPI), The Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) and the Association for Project Safety (APS).
Chair of Greenwich University's Built Environment Industry Liaison Group
Anthony has long promoted the concept of integrated management systems, including GRC, sustainability, energy conservation, and BCM, HS&E, governance and ‘compliance’, with operational risk and liability management remaining ‘in the field’ with support from a panel of experts at centre.
Effective risk management requires the ability to quantify the exposure - to manage we need to measure, and organisations need to employ metrics that are accepted and understood by those in operational control of the business.
Jack White
Jack is a chartered environmentalist. He has extensive experience working on sustainability and on building safety. This work has involved numerous innovation and change projects.
He has set up and leads a team working on the golden thread for existing buildings for Clarion. He is involved in a number of golden thread and BIM working groups to help shape what this looks like in the sector.