Health and Safety Executive

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How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future? Are there significant implications for building users’ and construction workers’ health and safety arising from carbon reduction involving: retrofitting domestic and commercial buildings; constructing, altering or decommissioning high hazard infrastructure/plants; low carbon heat solutions; zero emission vehicles and plant; reduced carbon materials; climate adaption to existing buildings and infrastructure? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future? Are there significant implications for construction worker health and safety arising from widespread adoption across this diverse sector of: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC); AI, inherently safer design principles, Autonomy and the Internet of Things; Robotics; Advanced materials and additive manufacturing? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future? How can BSR most effectively evaluate the impact of the Building Regulations and associated guidance on improved building safety outcomes? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can HSE ensure that our regulatory approach in the built environment is fit for purpose for the future? How can building management data be structured, shared and used to enable well-informed duty holder decision-making throughout the life cycle of a building? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? What are the building safety implications of widespread adoption (including retrofitting) across the built environment from renewable energy and energy storage solutions within/in close proximity to occupied buildings? This includes battery storage, electric vehicles and personal light electric vehicles. Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? How can health resilience be supported through building standards including aspects such as moisture control, ventilation and sanitation for infection control? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? How can low frequency impact noise within buildings and its subjective effect on adverse health impacts on residents be measured and evaluated, and how effective are current acoustic performance standards in addressing noise break-in to buildings from ventilation and the new requirements for overheating? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? How can BSR ensure the needs of future building users are reflected in current standards and guidance to improve and maintain safety and standards long-term, including considering the impact that an ageing population and changes to lifestyles, societal norms and ways of working may have on the extent to which current standards and guidance are fit for purpose? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? What are the building safety implications of widespread adoption (including retrofitting) across the built environment of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) including Volumetric Modular Construction, advanced materials and additive manufacturing? What are the building safety implications for structural and fire safety arising from emerging new developments such as Light Gauge Steel Frames (LGSF), Thermally Modified Timber and Cross Laminate Timber? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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What evidence is available to improve the health, safety and environmental standard of buildings, and protect building users, by informing the evaluation of the Building Regulations and the associated guidance? What lessons might translate from the management of ageing assets in the major hazards sector to help dutyholders build and maintain safe buildings, addressing aspects such as human factors, safety management systems and structural safety e.g. to assure the safety of Large Panel System (LPS) buildings and Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) buildings. Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees? What are the effective ways to ensure construction workers (particularly in small businesses) are appropriately engaged with and competent in relevant health and safety matters? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees? Is there opportunity to transfer knowledge into and across the diverse construction and building safety sectors to build competence levels aided by appropriate benchmark standards? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How do the diverse construction and building safety sectors build and enhance competence and skills within their sector, ensuring engagement and commitment from employees? How can BSR most effectively baseline and evaluate industry competence levels and also evaluate regulatory competence, including performance with other regulatory interdependencies e.g. the regulatory resource of Building Control Bodies? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes? What asbestos remains in the built environment, at what rate is this currently being disturbed and how will industry trends impact on this? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes? What influences construction activity in the sector, and which have the most impact on a project’s health and safety management (both at the small and larger project scale)? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes? What statistics does the BSR already have access to across its operations and what is the potential for these to be used to inform regulatory assurance and impact? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How can regulatory assurance and impact be demonstrated to help secure compliance and positive outcomes? What metrics provide the best leading indicators for building safety and construction health and safety performance at both an industry and project-specific level? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments? What impact could wider changes in the built environment, like decarbonisation, have on the pattern of removal of asbestos? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments? How will future changes in technology, and the way in which workers interact with these new technologies (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Net Zero technologies), affect the health of workers and what can be done to mitigate any work-related ill health? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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How does the changing working environment impact both the way people work and their overall health in workplace environments? How will the changes in working practices, such as increased hybrid and homeworking, escalation of the gig economy, work in peripatetic industries and changes in the demographics of the workforce affect work-related ill health and what can be done to mitigate any work-related ill health? Health and Safety Executive, 2024
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