PI's: Fire Safety Checks
Stock Condition & Asset Management: Fire Safety Checks
BS02: Fire safety checks
Rationale, Definition & Worked Example
Below you can find information regarding the rationale, definition and formula for this performance indicator. This includes a worked example to demonstrate how this indicator should be calculated.
Rationale
Note: This TSM metric relates to LCRA and LCHO combined
For full details of the RSH requirements and links to TSM Guidance, click here.
This metric was introduced by the English Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) in April 2023 as one of a suite of Tenant Satisfaction Measures (TSMs). It is a regulatory requirement that all Registered Providers (RPs), regardless of size, collect and report the TSMs to their tenants.
For this TSM, this means all such units within a property that requires an FRA.
Providers must ensure that all statutory obligations in relation to carrying out FRAs for a particular property were met, and that these were appropriately recorded, in order to report compliance for the dwelling units in that property in item A below. This includes statutory obligations for keeping FRAs up-to-date through interim reviews, but not the completion of remedial actions that may be identified in FRAs. Although this TSM does not measure remedial actions, providers must of course ensure that these are carried out as required.
A ‘property‘ in this context means a building that requires an FRA this is typically a building with two or more dwelling units and at least one communal part (e.g. a tower block). All communal parts (e.g. lifts, stairwells etc.) and other relevant parts of the property (e.g. storage rooms, external wall systems, balconies and flat front doors etc.) which are required to be included within the scope of FRAs must be covered. If multiple FRAs were required for a property, providers must have ensured that all these FRAs were carried out in order to report compliance for the dwelling units within this property dwelling units must not be double counted in either part A or B of the TSM calculation. Any vacant LCRA or LCHO dwelling units within each property must be included within the calculation of this TSM.
The calculation of this TSM must reflect all FRAs required for each property in which there are one or more relevant dwelling units owned by the provider, including FRAs for which a third party is responsible. An example of this might be where a provider owns LCRA and/or LCHO units within a property owned by a third-party landlord. In these circumstances, a dwelling unit must not be counted within item A of the TSM calculation if the provider was not able to obtain evidence or otherwise make sure that all required FRAs and FRA reviews were carried out for the property the dwelling unit is in.
This TSM must reflect the compliance position at the end of each reporting year. Subject to statutory obligations, it may reflect FRAs conducted within the current reporting year or previous reporting years.
Definition
The percentage of dwelling units within properties that require a Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) where all required FRAs have been completed and recorded at the end of the reporting period.
This includes all LCRA and LCHO homes within buildings that require an FRA (typically those with communal areas). A property is only counted as compliant where all required FRAs and any required reviews have been completed.
Where evidence of completed FRAs (including those carried out by third parties) is not available, the dwelling units within that property should be counted as non-compliant.
Formula
Divided by
B. Number of dwelling units owned within properties for which an FRA was required to have been carried out as at year end.
Multiplied by 100.
Worked Example
The metric would therefore be calculated as:
BS02 = (A * 100)/B
Or in this case:
BS02 = (48 * 100) /50
BS02 = 96%