Principal Accountable Persons

Additional Responsibilities of the PAP: 

Register the building

The PAP must register the building with BSR. As part of the registration process they must:

• submit structure and fire safety information about the building
• notify BSR of any changes to the information submitted at registration

Manage the building’s structure and safety

The PAP must also make sure that the structural and fire safety risks are managed properly for the whole building.

The PAP must check that all APs for the building have:

• identified and assessed the fire and structural risks in their parts of the building
• taken steps to prevent incidents from happening
• put measures in place to lessen the severity of any incident

Additional duties of the PAP are to: 

• prepare and update the building’s safety case report
• report safety occurrences to BSR
• operate a mandatory occurrence reporting system
• operate a complaints system
• display required information and documentation clearly within the building
• prepare and update a resident engagement strategy
• apply for a building assessment certificate when told to do so by BSR
• provide building information to relevant individuals and organisations.

PAPs can instruct a third party (such as Jennings & Barrett) to manage these responsibilities on their behalf, however overall responsibility remains with the PAP.

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