ABSTRACT
Health and Safety should be a fundamental consideration for all architects and designers. It should be part of everyday working both with activities inside the design office and on every project on site. Every architect should, for example, be aware that preparing a fire safety strategy for a building is a requirement of Building Regulations. On 2 April 2020, the UK Government published a raft of proposals for a reformed building safety regulatory system in its response to the Building a Safer Future consultation, which ran from 6 June 2019 to 31 July 2019. Under the Government’s Building Safety Regulator proposals, there will be a new system of duty-holders with clear responsibilities at each stage of a building’s lifecycle, designed to provide more answerability to end-users. The Accountable Person will be the individual, partnership, or corporate body with the legal right to receive funds through service charges or rent from leaseholders and tenants in the building.
