Building Safety Assurance

 

Ark's new BSA (Building Safety Assurance) solution provides an end-to-end solution or where required pick and mix on a technology platform that allows the Accountable Person and users an easy, simple and cheaper way towards managing all these requirements for the Building Safety Act.

Assurance Service

With almost 30 year's experience in GRC/Property Risk and Compliance Management, Ark Workplace Risk has a proven track record of delivering innovative market leading solutions for Accountable and Principal Accountable Persons (AP/PAPs).

Ark provides an end-to-end solution that is efficient, cost effective and most importantly assists AP/PAPs towards assuring compliance and providing a safe place for residents.

Ark delivers services and its technology platform OUOODA, to assist Accountable and Principal Accountable Persons to manage their building safety obligations and legal requirements. These services typically support Accountable and Principal Accountable Persons:

  • Who are managing these obligations with limited resources
  • Have to invest considerable amounts of time ensuring that they are covering compliance and risk comprehensively: and/or Have limited access or fragmented access to wide range of reliable and "Competent Advice".

Example Methodology

The service provides appropriate levels of competence to AP/PAPs, property management and others (including other stakeholders) in assisting them in meeting their responsibilities by:

  • Formulating and developing with the organisation the strategies and management regime, not just for existing activities but also with respect to new acquisitions or new and potentially changing risks within the asset:
  • Assisting and assuring the organisation in meeting its current compliance requirements (in respect of statutory inspections, review, documents and the like):
  • Promoting a positive safety culture and assisting in securing the effective implementation of the plans, strategy, golden thread and management systems:
  • Planning for compliance including setting of realistic short- and long-term objectives, advising on priorities and establishing appropriate and adequate systems and performance standards:
  • Providing day-to-day support in respect of the implementation and monitoring of the management systems and plans including residents engagement strategy, troubleshooting, incidents, reporting and analysis.

Assistance for preparing the Safety Case Report

ARK has a multi-dimensional capability that spans system design, document review, technical authoring and project management. This together with our subject matter expertise puts us in an ideal position to assist clients with reviewing documents in a safety case and helping them produce a safety case report. The following needs to be gathered when developing a Safety Case Report.

Building
Information
  Identification
of Building
Safety Risk
  Risk Prevention
and Protection
Information
  Safety
Management
System