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Safety in the home

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Greg Myles
Greg Myles

Landlords must ensure safety in rental properties by conducting regular inspections guided by insurance requirements and creating a risk assessment checklist. They must provide smoke alarms on every floor, carbon monoxide detectors in high risk rooms, and obtain an annual gas safety certificate. New regulations will require five-yearly electrical condition reports for all rental properties. Landlords must also make communal areas smoke-free and restrict smoking to individual rooms.

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Safety in the home
How to ensure safety in the home • HHRS (discussed previously) is the primary legislation relating to health and safety but there are other obligations • Landlords/agents should carry out regular inspections (be guided by insurance provider requirements) • Landlords/agents should devise or adopt a risk assessment check list • Keep all records or communication and as a basic requirement keep a diary of actions
Smoke alarms and carbon monoxide • From 1st October 2015 new obligation on landlords • Requirement to provide smoke alarm on every habitable floor of property • Must be tested at start of the tenancy (battery operated acceptable) • Carbon monoxide reader in ‘high risk’ rooms such as those with solid fuel systems • Civil penalty for non-compliance
Gas safety • Landlords must maintain all gas appliances (and flues serving them) • Annual safety check by Gas Safe registered engineer • Certificate to be given to new tenants before they move in • Certificate to be given to existing tenants within 28 days • Failure to comply is a criminal offence
Electrical safety • Currently no regulations except in HMOs • Housing and Planning Act 2016 gave powers to produce regulations for all PRS • Enactment impending to implement 5 yearly electrical condition reports to all PRS with visual checks on change over of tenant
Smoking • Premises that are ‘open to the public’ are required to be smoke free • For tenants that rent a room only, smoking will only be permitted in their individual room • Landlord must put up no smoking signs in communal areas

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Safety in the home

  • 2. How to ensure safety in the home • HHRS (discussed previously) is the primary legislation relating to health and safety but there are other obligations • Landlords/agents should carry out regular inspections (be guided by insurance provider requirements) • Landlords/agents should devise or adopt a risk assessment check list • Keep all records or communication and as a basic requirement keep a diary of actions
  • 3. Smoke alarms and carbon monoxide • From 1st October 2015 new obligation on landlords • Requirement to provide smoke alarm on every habitable floor of property • Must be tested at start of the tenancy (battery operated acceptable) • Carbon monoxide reader in ‘high risk’ rooms such as those with solid fuel systems • Civil penalty for non-compliance
  • 4. Gas safety • Landlords must maintain all gas appliances (and flues serving them) • Annual safety check by Gas Safe registered engineer • Certificate to be given to new tenants before they move in • Certificate to be given to existing tenants within 28 days • Failure to comply is a criminal offence
  • 5. Electrical safety • Currently no regulations except in HMOs • Housing and Planning Act 2016 gave powers to produce regulations for all PRS • Enactment impending to implement 5 yearly electrical condition reports to all PRS with visual checks on change over of tenant
  • 6. Smoking • Premises that are ‘open to the public’ are required to be smoke free • For tenants that rent a room only, smoking will only be permitted in their individual room • Landlord must put up no smoking signs in communal areas