Loft hatches are often overlooked during routine maintenance, yet they present real and foreseeable safety risks. Poorly maintained hatches can lead to falls from height, manual handling injuries, and damage to property when staff or contractors require access for inspections, repairs, alarms, insulation, or leak tracing. For housing associations and third sector landlords, safe loft access is a legal duty. Why this matters Accessing a loft involves working at height. If the

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Every year, too many people in Great Britain don’t make it home from work. The latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive show that 124 workers died in work-related incidents in 2024/25 a sobering reminder that no one should ever lose their life simply for doing their job. While this number is lower than it was twenty years ago (223 deaths in 2004/05 and 495 in 1981), it is still 124 too many. But what is often less visible are the lives claimed by work-related disea

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Introduction and Background ACS has recently received numerous queries regarding responsibility for carrying out Fire Risk Assessments...

Introduction and Background  At the beginning of 2023, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 came into force in England. The Regulations contain 12 individual regulations, many of which have been developed following the findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. The Regulations have imposed some new and more stringent fire safety responsibilities on owners of residential premises in England, including some specific requirements relating to high-rise buildings. The regulatio

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