PI's: Asbestos Safety Checks
Stock Condition & Asset Management: Asbestos Safety Checks
BS03: Asbestos 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, dwelling units includes all such units within a property that requires asbestos management surveys or re-inspections.
Providers must ensure that all statutory obligations in relation to carrying out asbestos management surveys or re-inspections 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 above. This includes statutory obligations for keeping surveys and re-inspections up-to-date but not the completion of remedial actions that may be identified (except for those related to re-inspection specifically). Although this TSM does not measure remedial actions more generally, providers must of course ensure that these are carried out as required.
A ‘property‘ in this context means a building that requires asbestos management surveys or re-inspections. The calculation of this TSM must reflect all asbestos management surveys or re-inspections required for each property in which there are one or more relevant dwelling units owned by the provider, including surveys or re-inspections for which a third party is responsible. This may include, for example, where the provider owned LCRA and/or LCHO units in 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 asbestos management surveys or re-inspections were carried out for the property the dwelling unit is in. Any vacant LCRA or LCHO dwelling units within each property must be included within the calculation of this TSM.
If multiple asbestos management surveys or re-inspections were required for a property, providers must have ensured that all these 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.
This TSM must reflect the compliance position at the end of each reporting year. Subject to statutory obligations, it may reflect asbestos management surveys or re-inspections conducted within the current reporting year or previous reporting years.
Definition
The percentage of dwelling units within properties that require asbestos management surveys or re-inspections where all required surveys or re-inspections have been completed and recorded at the end of the reporting period.
This includes all LCRA and LCHO homes within buildings where asbestos management is required. A property is only counted as compliant where all required surveys and re-inspections have been carried out and are up to date.
Where evidence of completed surveys or re-inspections (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 asbestos management survey or re-inspection was required to have been carried out as at year end.
Multiplied by 100.
Worked Example
The metric would therefore be calculated as:
BS03 = (A * 100)/B
Or in this case:
BS03 = (48 * 100) /50
BS03 = 96%