Building Safety Regulator update
Self-certification schemes: mandatory technical competence requirements
Use this guide if you work in a self-certification scheme (previously known as competent person scheme). This guide sets out the mandatory requirements for individuals and organisations.
Source fact
What the publisher reported
Use this guide if you work in a self-certification scheme (previously known as competent person scheme). This guide sets out the mandatory requirements for individuals and organisations.
Professional interpretation
What this update may mean
Review relevance- Most relevant to
- Accountable persons, building managers, clients, designers and contractors
- Why it may matter
- Building Safety Regulator material may concern only higher-risk buildings, building-control work or regulated professionals. Scope and effective date matter.
- Proportionate next step
- Read the original publication and compare it with your building’s role, height, use and current safety-management responsibilities.
Use the update responsibly
A short relevance check
General news should lead to a recorded, proportionate check—not an unsupported conclusion about a building.
- 01
Verify the source
Read the complete publisher page and check whether its wording, status or advice has changed.
- 02
Match the scope
Compare the named product, premises, activity, people or legal scope with your own responsibilities.
- 03
Record the outcome
Note why action is or is not required, and seek competent advice where the relevance cannot be established confidently.
Primary or authoritative evidence
Original source details
The external page remains the authority for the full publication, identifiers, definitions, later amendments and any action specified by the publisher.
- Publisher
- Building Safety Regulator
- Publication type
- Building Safety Regulator update
- Published
- Last source date held
- Topic
- Building safety regulation
- Original publication
- View on Building Safety Regulator
Premises-specific next step
Has an update raised a question about your premises?
A news report or safety notice can prompt a review, but it does not establish that the arrangements at an unseen building are inadequate. Compare the update with your responsibilities, existing assessment and current premises records first.