Part 4: Higher-risk buildings Duties relating to building safety risks Section 84: Management of building safety risks Effect
This clause imposes an ongoing duty on Accountable Persons to take all reasonable steps and actions necessary to manage building safety risks, (which are defined in Clause 62, preventing them materialising in their building and to mitigate the severity of such an incident if it does occur.
	The duty to take the necessary steps will apply as soon as the building is occupied. Any necessary steps must be taken promptly.
	This duty will run parallel to that of needing to undertake a suitable and sufficient risk assessment, under clause 82.
	To make informed decisions, the Accountable Person should have identified the relevant hazards to their building in accordance with their risk assessment duty, decided who might be harmed by those hazards and evaluated the likelihood and consequence of those hazards developing into a building safety risk within the part of the building for which they are responsible. This clause then requires the Accountable Person to decide on and take all those steps or measures that are reasonably needed to both prevent the risk of fire spreading, structural collapse and any other prescribed matter and to mitigate the severe impact of such an incident on those in or around the part of the building for which they are responsible.
	When deciding on the measures needed to meet the duty, Accountable Persons must have regard to a set of principles, set out in regulations, ordered to form a best practice approach to risk management, from most efficient to least efficient, the most efficient being to avoid risk.
	Where those measures prove insufficient, the Building Safety Regulator will have the power to direct Accountable Persons to take the steps needed in order to comply with the duty through a compliance notice issued under Clause 99.
	The Accountable Person is under an ongoing duty to ensure these measures are kept under review and Subsection (5) requires a systematic approach, that is used in other risk management frameworks, to be adopted to ensure the Accountable Person fully understands the measures employed and that those measures remain appropriate and effective whilst the building is occupied.
	Where there are multiple Accountable Persons within a building it is expected that they will co-operate and co-ordinate with every other Accountable Person carrying out their obligations. This includes taking steps under this clause jointly/in co-ordination with other Accountable Persons, and jointly setting up and agreeing processes for adopting a systematic approach to ensuring the measures employed remain effective. The outcome should be that the safety arrangements across the whole building will work together (or at a minimum not conflict) to manage building safety risks.