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Dates:
February 21st, 2012
Fees: £210
Location: Upkeep
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HHSRS 2: The HHSRS in Practice (Certificate Course)
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About the City and Guilds Certificate
Aims:
By the end of this course, participants will understand the principles behind the Housing Health and Safety Rating System. Participants will understand how to link deficiencies, hazards and the liklihood of harms.
Delegates will work through the process of assessing properties. Participants will use the displays in the Upkeep Exhibition to carry out practice assessments.
This is a highly practical course which is designed to take delegates through the full assessment procedure.
Designed for:
People who need to assess properties according to the HHSRS, including private sector housing managers, environmental health officers, estate managers and housing managers who need to learn how the HHSRS may change their property ratings and how to prioritise failings, as well as managers who need to supervise staff who are assessing properties.
Key Points:
Introducing the Housing Health and Safety Rating System
The Main Points of the System;
Why do properties fail the HHSRS?
Inspecting Properties for the HHSRS;
Practical Work: Identifying deficiencies;
Linking Deficiencies to Hazards;
Assessing the Likelihood of Harm;
Calculating the Hazard Score;
Looking through Government Examples
The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) is the current means by which housing conditions are assessed and hazardous conditions are identified.
This is the first two one-day training courses designed to help people learn how to work with system.
Our training course "HHSRS 2: The HHSRS in Practice" is a follow-on course which leads to a Certificate to confirm that Candidates have successfully demonstrated their competence in assessing properties for the HHSRS. Find out more information here: HHSRS 2: The HHSRS in Practice
The HHSRS: Background Information
The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) came into force in April 2006 and is the current means by which housing conditions are assessed and hazardous conditions are identified. The HHSRS replaces the fitness standard as the statutory element of the Decent Homes Standard. To be decent a dwelling should be free of Category One Hazards. We are finding that many organisations are still not familiar with this new means for assessing dwellings.
The HHSRS is based on risk management, with properties being assessed against a list of 29 potential hazards. Unlike the previous fitness standard, which was focused on property condition and provision of amenities, this focuses on deficiencies in the design and structure and on the health and safety of the occupants. The recent results from the House Condition Survey data show that whilst only 4% of properties failed the
The Housing Corporation has said it does not expect housing providers to undertake full HHSRS surveys of their properties, but that housing providers and front line staff should be aware of all 29 hazards identified under the HHSRS and should ensure that staff are able to identify them and to respond to tenants queries about them. Staff working for enforcement sections need to understand the how to use the HHSRS in order to take enforcement action under Part 1 of the Housing Act 2004.
