Guidance

This four-page guidance note provides a handy reference document with shortcuts to the relevant HSE guidance notes which assist in quickly locating the relevant information that may be needed by roofing contractors.

This alert underlines the importance of managing materials, including those on-site that have yet to be used or installed, or where they have been partly installed and remain exposed.

This guidance document is to promote Safe2Torch specification writing at the initial survey and design stage and a safe system of work when using propane gas torches for the application of roofing membranes and the drying of roof surfaces for all flat roofing applications.

This guidance outlines considerations to either eliminate the risk or specify risk mitigation measures when carrying out hot works.

The document is split into sections covering the changes regarding design responsibility, structural properties, minimum roof pitch with or without in plane rooflights, safety, insulation, durability, spacer systems, rooflight area and specification, fibre cement, air tightness, gutters and flashings.

This safety alert highlights and clarifies the correct requirements that a fire stop must achieve for Scotland. It sets out what you must check with the manufacturer of the product you use to ensure that it meets the requirements of the Domestic handbook in Scotland.

This safety alert highlights and clarifies the correct requirements that a fire stop must achieve, one England and Wales. It sets out what you must check with the manufacturer of the product you use to ensure that it meets the requirements of Approved Document B, Annexe B, Table 3 and 4.

The Safe2Torch visual checklist has been developed to help identify areas of risk before carrying out hot works.

It is recommended that anyone preparing a specification should complete this checklist and if any boxes are ticked avoid the use of a direct torch-on application in these areas.

This alert hightlights the risks of RAAC plank decks throughout our membership and the wider industry.