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Oct 3, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Katherine Metcalfe |Pinsent Masons |Matthew Holder |Bruce Craig
At present, the law is sparse. It is largely based on the general duties under sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Photograph: iStockIn its 2016–2021 strategy, Helping Great Britain Work Well, HSE identified tacking ill health as one of six strategic objectives.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | David Thorneloe |Katherine Metcalfe
The Public Authority (Accountability) Bill was published as part of the Reverend James Jones’ report in 2017 into the experience of the Hillsborough families.The draft legislation is set to introduce a legal duty of candour on public officials and public bodies, and make misleading or obstructing investigations a criminal offence.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe |Stuart Davey
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe |Scott Wright
SBA specification document (91 pages / 4.2 MB) outlines how assessors should evaluate a building’s performance, providing a uniform standard for assessing various aspects of a potentially unsafe building. An SBA forms part of the Scottish standards specified by the recently passed Housing (Cladding Remediation) Bill (20 pages / 1.2 MB).
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe
The UK government has published long-awaited technical guidance (13-page / 252KB PDF) to provide details of its ‘second staircase’ policy, which is intended to improve building safety but has led to uncertainty in the property sector and resulted in developments being put on hold. The guidance, setting out changes to Approved Document B, makes second staircases mandatory in all new residential buildings over 18m in England from 30 September 2026.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe
Katherine Metcalfe of Pinsent Masons, who specialises in building safety regulation, said that the approach was necessary after regulations about the occupation of high-rise buildings came into force and further new rules on record-keeping were published by the UK government. The measures are part of a wider package of reforms to building safety regulation in England, which is underpinned by the 2022 Building Safety Act.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
journals.plos.org | Simon Fraser |Katherine Metcalfe |Julian K. Christians |Jess C. Hercus
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewedResearch Article Citation: Hercus JC, Metcalfe KX, Christians JK (2024) Sex differences in growth and mortality in pregnancy-associated hypertension. PLoS ONE 19(1): e0296853. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296853Editor: Nur Aizati Athirah Daud, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIAReceived: February 24, 2023; Accepted: December 20, 2023; Published: January 11, 2024Copyright: © 2024 Hercus et al.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe
There are two features of the building safety regime in England in particular that could be imported into rebuild Ukraine projects – to ensure designers and contractors meet competence requirements, and that a ‘golden thread’ of digital information is established and maintained.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe
The UK government’s response to a consultation on its proposed new building safety regime has pushed back on some of the data protection and commercial sensitivity concerns that were raised by the respondents, according to two legal experts.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Katherine Metcalfe
The Higher-Risk Buildings (Management of Safety Risks etc) (England) Regulations 2023 are one of a number of new sets of regulations on building safety that have been issued. No date has yet been set for them to come into force, but many of the other new rules – including those relevant to the design and construction of new higher-risk buildings, and to ongoing projects – take effect on 1 October 2023.
