Residents' roles and responsibilities
Your role as residents in ensuring safety
Residents and flat owners have legal responsibilities to avoid actions that could pose a risk to the fire and structural safety of the building and other residents.
Under the Building Safety Act
- you must not act in a way that creates a significant risk of a building safety risk materialising (spread of fire or structural safety)
- you must not interfere with a relevant safety item (a ‘relevant’ safety item means anything that is in or forms parts of the common parts of this building or is intended to improve the safety of building in or about the building)
- must comply with a request, made by us, for information reasonably required for the purposes of our duty to assess or manage a building safety risk, such as access to your property covered under section 97 of the Building Safety Act
A person “interferes” with a relevant safety item if they, without reasonable excuse:
- damage it
- remove it
- do anything to, or in relation to, it that interferes with its intended function
More information
Your Home, Your Safety – residents’ campaign
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is launching its latest Your Home, Your Safety campaign over the coming months to promote the work building safety teams do across England.
This multi-platform campaign is designed to help residents understand their rights and responsibilities under the Building Safety Act. It will also highlight how the Building Safety Regulator is working closely with industry and stakeholders to keep residents and their homes safe.
The campaign will focus on areas with a high concentration of high-rise residential buildings (HRBs). You may come across their adverts:
- at a bus stop near you
- while listening to your favourite podcast
- on social media and YouTube
You can also: