The Building Safety Regulator Functions of the Building Safety Regulator
The Act establishes the Health and Safety Executive as the Building Safety Regulator, to underpin the key regulatory reforms in the new building safety regime.
	The Building Safety Regulator has two objectives focused on securing the safety of people in and around buildings, and improving building standards. It will also regulate in line with best practice principles including being proportionate, transparent, and targeting its activity at cases where action is needed.
	The Building Safety Regulator has three core functions. These are:
Implementing the new, more stringent regulatory regime for higher-risk buildings. This means being the building control authority in England in respect of building work on higher-risk buildings and overseeing and enforcing the new regime in occupation for higher-risk buildings. The Building Safety Regulator will work closely with, and take advice from, other regulators and relevant experts in making key decisions throughout the lifecycle of a building. It will have powers necessary to bring together teams including Fire and Rescue Services, and local authority expertise (notably Local Authority Building Control teams) to assist it in making regulatory decisions.
Overseeing the safety and performance of all buildings. This has two key aspects:
Overseeing the performance of the building control sector. This will involve developing key performance indicators (KPIs) related to building control work, data collection and powers to impose sanctions for poor performance.
Understanding and advising on existing and emerging building standards and safety risks including advising on changes to regulations, changes to the scope of the regime and commissioning advice on risks in and standards of buildings.
Assisting and encouraging competence among the built environment industry and registered building inspectors. This has two key workstreams:
Assisting and encouraging improvement in competence of the built environment sector through several functions, including establishing and setting strategic direction of the proposed industry-led competence committee, carrying out research and analysis and publishing non-statutory advice and guidance.
Establishing a unified building control profession with competence requirements for registration as a building control professional that will be common across both public sector (local authorities) and private sector (registered building control approvers, currently known as Approved Inspectors).
	As the regulator leading delivery of the more stringent regulatory regime, the Building Safety Regulator will be responsible for all regulatory decisions under the new regime during the design, construction, occupation and refurbishment of higher-risk buildings.
	The Building Safety Regulator will work closely with, and take advice from, other regulators and relevant experts in making key decisions throughout the lifecycle of a building. It will have the powers necessary to bring together teams including Fire and Rescue Services and local authority expertise (notably Local Authority Building Control teams) to assist in making major regulatory decisions.