Building Safety Act
Official NFRC Guidance on the Building Safety Act
All NFRC Members, businesses large and small, have had to change their approach to building safety, regulations, and liability. This page holds all the information you might need to navigate these changes.
If you have questions that cannot be answered by this page, do reach out to NFRC’s Helpdesk team for further assistance.
Understanding the BSA and Building Regulations for Domestic Work
This guidance will help you understand the formal roles and responsibilities for dutyholders, clients, principal designers and principal contractors.
Part 2A of the Building Regulations 2010
This document gives an overview of the new part 2A of the Building Regulations 2010 and introduces regulations regarding “Dutyholders and Competence”, focusing on accountability and ensuring that all clients, designers and contractors involved in building work have the required competence and behaviours.
Working in line with the BSA as a Contractor
This guidance sets out the considerations for contractors to help ensure they are aware and fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations under the Act.
Competence Requirements
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 and Principal Designer.
The Role and Scope of the Building Safety Regulator
This guidance gives an overview of the Role and Scope of the Building Safety Regulator, unpacking the gateway approach and how your business may interact with them.
Fire Safety Act 2021
This short guidance note provides a summary of the key points within the Fire Safety Act 2021, split into Section 1—Premises to which the Fire Safety Order applies, Section 2—Power to change premises to which the Fire Safety Order applies, Section 3—Risk-based guidance about the discharge of duties under the Fire Safety Order and Section 4—Extent, commencement, and short title.
Design Responsibility and Liability
This guidance is to help contractors understand the responsibility they may undertake in relation to the design of the works prior to signing contracts and how to avoid taking on unnecessary risk.
You can view additional standards and regulations here.
Upcoming Events
Keep an eye on this space for free webinars covering the Building Safety Act. These will be external events that NFRC recommends you attend and events from NFRC focused specifically on how the BSA relates to roofing.
BSA News and Further Information
NFRC will continue to publish and share the latest news on the Building Safety Act. Please ensure you check back regularly to stay up to date.
