Health and Safety

In addition, it allows for supporting legislation to be introduced, one being the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. This places additional responsibilities on the Responsible Person, including checking fire doors quarterly and installing way finding signage.

The work involved in discharging those duties (but not the accountability) can be delegated to Rendall & Rittner should clients wish. Please contact us if this is an option you would like to explore.

Our Health and Safety team continue to monitor the requirements to ensure compliant guidance is provided.

On behalf of clients, in 2023, we completed 534 stage 1 and 2 BSA registrations for high-rise buildings, with 1,873 hours spent.

1. Building Registration
2. Building Safety Case
3. Building Safety Director
4. Fire Doors
5. Residents Engagement Strategy
6. The Golden Thread
7. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
8. The Accountable Person & Principal Accountable Person
9. Regulator Inspections & Assessments
10. Licence to Alter

• We provide property management employees, including on-site team members, procedures for managing safety on developments.
• We work with SafeContractor to ensure our approved contractors, working on the schemes we manage, are all externally accredited to a safety procurement scheme. This ensures they all meet a benchmark standard.

• We are audited annually by the British Safety Council against their 5 star audit and against ISO45001:2018 standard.
• We use independent health and safety consultants to undertake annual fire and building risk assessments at all our managed developments, with regular on-site reviews.
• Additionally our health and safety team conduct internal audits led by our Compliance Manager. We are aiming to complete 100 this year.
• We have a health and safety committee with members from our on-site teams. This enables direct, regular communication with Sue Petri the board director with overall responsibility for health and safety.
• Our executive health and safety committee is attended by a number of board members and is chaired by the head of health and safety. External safety consultants are members of both our H&S committees.
• Health and safety is regularly reviewed at Board level and we have clear H&S objectives within our business plan.
• Health and safety committee members undertake peer audits to support and provide best practice.
• Quarterly health and safety inspections by senior management give a fresh perspective which can be invaluable.
• We are members of  The Property Institute’s (formally ARMA) health and safety working group for that provides industry best practice and guidance.
• We led on the creation of a public affairs group which lobbied the government so leaseholders won’t pay for the remediation of unsafe cladding.  The group is now focused on changing building safety legislation and its impact on leaseholders. 

• Senior on-site managers and all property management employees receive Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) training.
• All Directors have undertaken IOSH’s Executive training course.
• Bespoke training matrices have been created for job roles across the business.
• We hold an annual health and safety month including roundtable discussions and training by both our health and safety team and external consultants.
• 20 virtual health and safety training sessions were held on a range of topics in 2023 (including during health and safety month) with a total of 1,461 attendees.

• We are British Safety Council 5 star accredited and in their 2023 Audit scored 97.01%. 
• In 2023 we maintained our ISO 45001 accreditation.
• Using HSE RIDDOR data, we have been below the industry incidence rate since the commencement of tracking statistics.
• We use trend analysis to identify areas of improvement.

In their 5 Star Audit report 2023 the British Safety Council stated: “There continues to be excellent OHSW practice at Rendall & Rittner, particularly in the areas of leadership, information management, and the management of contractors. There is significant evidence that the organisation is continually striving to improve, and this is supported by the awards and certifications already received.”