Guidance

This document gives an overview of the new part 2A of the Building Regulations 2010 introduces regulations regarding “Dutyholders and Competence”. This document focuses on accountability and ensuring that all clients, designers and contractors involved in building work have the required competence and behaviours.

This safety alert highlights and raises awareness of the issue of substandard timber battens within the marketplace which have the potential to cause roof failures and accidents.

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.

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.

It highlights the requirements for, and importance of, the installation of firestops at party wall and compartmental wall locations; and how they should be installed correctly and in accordance with manufacturers’ recommendations.

This guidance sets out the competence requirements of the act and how competence can be demonstrated. It covers the definition and role of a Principal Contractor (PC) and Principal Designer (PD).

This guidance is to help contractors understand the responsibility they may undertake in relation to the design of the works prior to signing contracts.

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.