Health, Safety and Building Safety Compliance
Two regimes, one building
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 makes the responsible person assess fire risk and maintain means of escape, fire doors, detection, signage and evacuation arrangements; the Fire Safety Act 2021 confirms the assessment covers structure, external walls and flat entrance doors. The Building Safety Act 2022 adds the Building Safety Regulator and, for higher-risk buildings, an Accountable Person (and a Principal Accountable Person where there is more than one) who must register the building, prepare a Safety Case Report, maintain a golden thread of information, produce a resident engagement strategy and report mandatory occurrences.
Thresholds
A higher-risk building is at least 18 metres high or at least seven storeys, and contains at least two residential units. Note the "or": a building under 18 metres but seven storeys tall still qualifies, as does a five-storey building over 18 metres.
Other duties
Under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, buildings 11 metres or more need a recorded fire risk assessment, information to the fire and rescue service and resident instruction; at 18 metres or more, external wall information must be supplied; communal fire doors are checked monthly and flat entrance doors annually. Add gas safety, five-yearly EICR, asbestos management (CAR 2012), legionella (L8), LOLER thorough examination of lifts (generally six-monthly), RIDDOR and first aid.
Traps
The Act does not create a statutory "Building Safety Manager" - that role was dropped. Do not confuse the 11-metre resident information threshold with the 18-metre higher-risk threshold, and do not suggest resident engagement transfers the Accountable Person's legal duties.
Rule of thumb
Compliance evidence must be current, dated, signed and retrievable within minutes; if you cannot produce it on inspection, treat it as missing.