Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Duties relating to information and documents Section 87: Mandatory reporting requirements Proposed use of power
It is intended that the power given to the Secretary of State will be used to require Accountable Persons to report certain structural and fire safety occurrences to the Building Safety Regulator, similar to those duties that exist in other industries such as aviation. This will involve reporting to the Building Safety Regulator any structural or fire safety event that occurs in or about the part of a higher-risk building for which the Accountable Person is responsible and which represents a significant risk to life safety. Mandatory occurrence reporting will complement voluntary occurrence reporting, which will capture safety occurrences not of a high enough risk to be required reporting under mandatory occurrence reporting.
	Secondary legislation will prescribe which occurrences which must be reported to the Building Safety Regulator. This will be based on occurrences which, if they were to occur within a higher-risk building, would likely meet the threshold of a significant risk to life safety. Guidance will be provided to Accountable Persons to assist them in determining whether an occurrence must be reported as laid out in secondary legislation.
	The specified manner of reporting will likely be via an online portal. Current proposals for the timeframe for reporting are an immediate notification to the regulator as soon as a mandatory occurrence is identified, followed by a full report as soon as practicable and not later than ten calendar days from the time of the occurrence being identified.
	The occurrences specified in secondary legislation may include the discovery of a structural safety or fire safety related defect.