Understanding Building Compliance

Compliance means to comply with a command, order or rule. In terms of a building, it means adhering to requirements, standards or regulations to keep the occupants safe. Conducting regular compliance service and maintenance visits on the equipment and assets of your building is essential to ensure that it operates in accordance with the relevant regulations.

What needs to be done to keep your building compliant?

As a company who work closely with Building, Maintenance and Facilities Managers we know the one issue that has most importance is ensuring your buildings remain compliant under current regulations. We also know that trying to find those regulations, clearly explained, with one reference point would save a lot of time and trouble in individual research.

For this reason we produced a very useful eBook entitled A Guide to Workplace Compliance. This eBook focusses on areas where regular maintenance plays a vital part in maintaining health and safety standards that are conducive to creating working environments that are safe and comfortable for employees and occupants.

Within the eBook we look at the regulations applying to the services and systems needed to run existing buildings, as opposed to building fabric, new builds and construction work.

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The key areas we visit are:

Air and Ventilation Safety Compliance
Gas Safety Compliance
Fire Safety Compliance
Electricity Safety Compliance
Water Safety Compliance

We also briefly cover other areas such as Lifting Equipment and health and safety practices such as the prevention of Legionnaires disease.

We provide for each category:

An overview of the relevant regulations
The key compliance concerns for Facilities and Building Managers
References
Some interesting facts and figures
A compliance checklist

Our scope focuses on office and retail environments rather than factories, and construction sites. Also, whilst the rules in this document do apply to the healthcare sector (e.g. hospitals), there are also additional regulations that apply to these and other critical areas.

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