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Building Assessment Certificates (BACs): application resources
Additional resources for Principal Accountable Persons (PAPs) who are being asked to submit an application for a BAC are now available.
As well as webinars and Q&As for PAPs at resident-managed buildings and more experienced PAPs making multiple applications, the online information covers how to make a BAC application and the assessment process. Access the BAC resources.
Updated building control guidance
We’ve made some improvements to our guidance for building control approval for higher-risk buildings.
Visit GOV.UK to view:
- Building control approval for higher-risk buildings
- Preparing information for a building control approval application
- Making changes to a higher-risk building project
- Applying for a completion certificate
After listening to the experiences of people using the guidance, the updates will better support the needs of those preparing to, or applying for, building control approval from BSR.
Regulated Professions Register: building inspector update
Regulated Building Inspectors (RBIs) has been added to the GOV.UK Regulated Professions Register (RPR).
The register is accessible to the public to help understand what entry requirements are needed for the various professions, with links to key documents and contact information for queries.
BSR started to regulate RBIs who undertake ‘Restricted Activities’ in April 2024. The addition of RBIs to the RPR is recognition of them now being part of a regulated profession. Access the RPR register.
Protect your workers from stress – assess the risks and act on them
April is Stress Awareness Month and HSE has a range of resources and information to help employers protect workers from stress at work.
The law requires all employers to prevent work-related stress to support good mental health in the workplace.
The need to protect your workers from work-related stress, depression and anxiety falls under the provision sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
HSE’s work-related stress webpages offers various tools and support to help businesses. These include:
- using stress talking toolkits to help structure your conversations
- downloading a stress risk assessment template to develop your processes for preventing or managing stressors
HSE’s Working Minds campaign encourages employers to support workers’ mental health using 5 simple steps. Sign-up to the Working Minds monthly ebulletin for access to all the latest campaign news, updates and resources.
Safety of pressure systems
HSE’s publication covers the safe design and use of pressure systems.
The Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000 (PSSR) aim to prevent serious injury from the hazard of stored energy (pressure) as a result of the failure of a pressure system or one of its component parts.
Pressure systems are defined as:
- a system comprising one or more pressure vessels of rigid construction, any associated pipework and protective devices
- the pipework with its protective devices to which a transportable pressure receptacle is, or is intended to be, connected
- a pipeline and its protective devices
Download a free copy of our guide Safety of pressure systems (L122).
HSE launches 2025 annual science review
The review illustrates how HSE uses innovative science and evidence to protect people and places.
This year’s annual science review is also accompanied by several video case studies.
Watch the first video ‘When welding goes wrong’ on YouTube.
Keep an eye out for more video case studies from our scientists, researchers and engineers that will be released on our YouTube playlist throughout the year.
Visit HSE’s website to download the 2025 annual science review.
New to the job: health and safety
Workers are as likely to have an accident in the first 6 months at a workplace as during the rest of their working life.
Anyone new to the workplace will be facing unfamiliar risks from the job they will be doing and from their surroundings.
We have guidance to protect those new to a job, which includes an in-depth guide to the 6 steps to protect new workers:
- capability
- induction
- control measures
- information
- supervision
- check understanding
There is also guidance to help users and suppliers of gig economy, agency and temporary workers.