Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Duties relating to information and documents Section 87: Mandatory reporting requirements Background
This is a new provision.
	The Independent Review recommended that it should be mandatory for key dutyholders to report particularly dangerous safety-related events to the Building Safety Regulator. This section contributes to the fulfilment of this recommendation.
Example
A discarded cigarette starts a fire in the bin room of a higher-risk residential building. Smoke is detected by sensors and the bin chute plates automatically close to provide compartmentation, but the plates have not been appropriately tested and are not of the correct specification. As a result, smoke is allowed to pass up the bin chutes and into resident’s rooms. This presents a significant risk to life safety. A resident reports the incident through the building’s mandatory occurrence reporting system. The Accountable Person responsible for the area where the incident occurred immediately notifies the Building Safety Regulator that a mandatory occurrence has been identified, and a full report is sent to the regulator as soon as is practicable and no later than ten calendar days from the occurrence being identified. Upon receiving the report, the regulator could, at its own discretion, use it as a basis for further investigation or enforcement measures. Such a report would also help the regulator to identify potential trends of similar such incidents across the sector. Additionally, valuable lessons learnt contained within the report could be shared with industry by the regulator, helping others to proactively identify and resolve similar issues on other sites and improve best practices across the sector.