Celebrating the Building Safety Alliance’s new charity status

Trustee representatives came together in the aftermath of the Grenfell tragedy to collaborate on a competence framework for those managing buildings. Keen to further a joint vision of delivering safe buildings for residents and society at large, the founding organisations wanted to formalise the cooperations that followed across policy, legislation, competence development and implementation of the new regulatory regime.

Charity status was deemed the best vehicle for achieving the Alliance’s objective, which is to preserve and protect the health and safety of the public in the built environment, and particularly the residential occupied sector, by promoting standards and best practice in the management of safety in buildings, especially for residents.

Over the last few years, the Building Safety Alliance has published several guidance documents, with several more to follow over the coming months. Three documents will be published in support of the golden thread this month, and an update of our standard 'BSAS 01 Organisational Capability Standard - Competence Assurance' will be published shortly.

The development of these documents is a testament to the dedication and expertise of industry professionals who have tirelessly, and voluntarily, collaborated in delivering this guidance, so that building safety standards and operational practices can be improved, and people can be safe in their homes.

Our organisation will remain flexible and agile to meet the needs of the occupation phase and collaboration will remain at the core of its mission. Anthony Taylor, Building Safety Alliance said: “The Alliance wish to thank all those who have given their valuable time and knowledge to developing common approaches to the requirements of the new regulatory regime, ultimately seeking to make buildings safe. We would also extend our thanks to those representatives of BSR and MHCLG who acted as observers to the groups who have been developing these documents over many months.”

For more information and to enquire about collaborating on the Building Safety Alliance’s work, please visit buildingsafetyalliance.org.uk.