Document downloads - Health and safety
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Residential lettings tenancy health and safety checklist
Questions on the checklist cover the obligations and recommended checks required of the letting agent (landlord) with regard to fire, electrics, gas, asbestos, hazardous substances and housekeeping. If the answer to any questions is no, the action to be taken should be noted in the comments section.
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Residential lettings workplace health and safety checklist
Questions on the checklist cover the obligations of employers to ensure the safety and health of their employees. Questions relate to health and safety notices, welfare, health and safety management and safe systems of work.
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Surveying safely
Published November 2018
Effective from February 2019
Reissued July 2023
Appropriate management of health and safety is a requirement for all RICS-regulated firms and RICS members, including property-related businesses. The requirement for such management has been put in place in many countries across the globe and across industry sectors and governmental organisations in order to protect individuals from harm.
This professional standard sets out basic, good practice principles for the management of health and safety for RICS-regulated firms and RICS members. It sets out principles for those engaged in the built environment as property professionals and includes health and safety responsibilities:
• at a corporate level (whether the RICS-regulated firm is large or small) and
• at the level of the individual RICS member.
It covers property-related businesses and identifies the moral, ethical and practical issues that confront RICS-regulated firms and RICS members everywhere, in all the work that they undertake.
This document came into effect on 1 February 2019.
This document was reissued in July 2023 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in November 2018 as a guidance note. The regulatory requirements remain the same and no material changes have been made to the document. -
UK residential real estate agency
Published September 2017
Effective from 11 September 2017
With the increased focus on the need for ethical practice and transparency in the residential property market this RICS professional statement sets out clearly the responsibilities of residential property agents to ensure they are working to the highest ethical and professional standards.
The 5th edition of the Blue Book, UK Residential Property Standards, has been archived as it has been superseded by the 6th edition. -
Health and safety for residential property managers
Published January 2016
Effective from 1 August 2016
This guidance note sets out practical guidance around the health and safety management of most types and configurations of residential properties. It aims to assist those responsible to be able to ensure, at all times, that the properties and, if appropriate, the facility management services delivered meet all statutory obligations (note that you will need to check legal requirements in each relevant jurisdiction), as well as good practice in regard to health, safety and environmental matters.