The Building Safety Act is an important piece of legislation that affects everyone in the construction industry. Whether you’re a developer, contractor, or building owner, it’s essential that you understand the requirements of the act and how to comply with them. To help you get up to speed, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 YouTube videos on the Building Safety Act. These videos cover everything from the basics of the act to more advanced topics like golden thread requirements and fire safety.

Deputy Director of the Building Safety Programme at the Health and Safety Executive, Tim Galloway is a highly experienced and knowledgeable health and safety professional that leads teams covering the southern third of Great Britain. In this video, Tim discusses regulation and Enforcement at the recent Building Safety Act Conference.

This animation, released by Cumbria County Council, provides an excellent summary of what Responsible Persons need to ensure is in place in order to comply with the, now enforceable, new Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.

The Building Safety Act will protect people who live in high-rise buildings. They also give new duties to the people who are responsible for the safety of those buildings. At the heart of the building safety reforms is the creation of the Building Safety Regulator – or the BSR – in England. But what and who is this? Watch to find out!

In this seminar, good friends of Operance, and award-winning multidisciplinary consultancy, CalfordSeadon, discuss how to comply with the Building Safety Act. Presented by members of their BIM & Digital, Building Surveying, M&E Engineering and Civil & Structural Engineering Teams, they break it down in easy-to-understand chunks.

To create safer buildings, contractors, designers, building owners and more need to create and maintain a digital record of building safety information throughout the entire lifecycle. New legislation calls for the Golden Thread in order to make this happen, but what is it? What this short animation to find out.

The Building Safety Act 2022 requires high-rise residential buildings in England to be registered with the Building Safety Regulator. All high-rise residential buildings 18 metres tall or higher, or at least 7 storeys tall, with two or more residential units must be registered by 1 October 2023. This short video provides an introduction to the registration process, how to apply, and the building information required.

Here, Dame Judith Hackitt delivers her keynote address at the recent Institue of Structural Engineers, Building Safety Act Conference and provides an insight into the new Industry Safety Steering Group’s 4th Annual Report, as yet to be submitted to the Secretary of State and to be published at the time.

As part of the new building safety regime in England, the Building Safety Act, 2022 introduces new roles and responsibilities for people involved in managing high-rise residential buildings. This short video by the Health and Safety Executive introduces the roles of an Accountable Person and the Principle Accountable Person.

Operance is the world’s first purpose-built golden thread software solution. Here’s an insight into how it works, delving into the registration of higher-risk buildings, developing key building information and your safety case and safety case report.

n recent years we have seen exponential growth in the pace of innovation for industries connected to the overall goal of improving building fire and safety for everyone. Operations and maintenance manuals have been no exception to this growth, with lots of updates, our favourite being the digitisation of manuals creating a whole new array of possibilities never seen before. But what changes can we expect for the rest of this year and 2023?

Good question! We have provided three key areas where we expect to see innovation below:

The first and most important change happening in 2023 is the official approval and release of the golden thread. The golden thread will transform building and fire safety for everyone, requiring a golden thread of information kept up to date at all times. If you have not heard of the upcoming golden thread legislation, we recommend reading our article explaining the latest definition and principles here.

Now that operations and maintenance manuals have gone digital, we expect other areas of information to start catching up too! Whilst home user guides and building user guides are already available in digital format; we believe innovation will begin increasing in momentum throughout 2023 and are planning to be a part of that.

Imagine moving into your new home and receiving a digital home user guide instead of the current paper-based folders; that we have all come across all too often. Digital HUGs and BUGs would improve longevity, and accessibility, with the potential to branch into much more such as real-time information similar to the golden thread of information that we currently achieve with our digital O&M manuals. The options for innovation are endless.

Being able to digitise your building information and create a golden thread is what we consider the forefront of innovation in the building industry. The elephant in the room is, how can we integrate the old paper-based O&M manuals into our digital platform so they can be golden thread compliant as well? 

Operance has been working hard behind the scenes to provide a solution to this problem and will have news coming very soon! Follow us on social media to keep track of any updates!

The above points are a small slice of the overall innovation that we expect to start happening throughout this year and 2023. Keep an eye out for our follow-up article later this year, where we will expand on the topics listed above and provide further insight into our expectations moving forwards.