How much of your safety case already exists?
TOOL - SAFETY CASE CHECK
Most buildings hold more of it than anyone realises, scattered across surveys, contracts and other people's files. Work through the nine headings the Building Safety Regulator actually uses and see what you have, what sits with someone else, and what genuinely is not there. Indicative only, about five minutes.
Safety case readiness
Nine headings. Mark where you stand on each.
These are the nine headings the Building Safety Regulator uses for a safety case report. Tap any heading to see what sits underneath it, then mark whether you hold that material, hold some of it, or have not got to it yet.
Where the work is
Indicative guidance only. This is not a safety case, a safety case report, a risk assessment or a statement of your legal duties, and a full set of ticks does not mean a safety case is adequate. It tests whether the material exists, not whether it holds up. The headings are taken from the Building Safety Regulator's guidance on preparing a safety case report and from regulation 5 of the Higher-Risk Buildings (Management of Safety Risks etc) (England) Regulations 2023. Current at September 2026. See our terms of use.
Most of a safety case already exists. It just belongs to other people.
WHY IT FEELS HARDER THAN IT IS
The nine headings are not a template to write against. They are a list of evidence, and most of that evidence was generated years ago by someone who was not thinking about a safety case at the time. The structural survey, the cladding investigation, the O and M manuals, the door schedule, the alarm test records. Very little of it starts from a blank page.
What makes it hard is ownership. Section 83 puts the assessment duty on every accountable person for the part of the building they hold, so on a building with more than one, the material is split before anyone starts. The principal accountable person then has to pull it together under section 85, and can only write up what other people hand over.
So the first job is almost never writing. It is finding out who holds what, and what is missing once you have asked everyone.
BEYOND THE CHECK
When you need more than a self check
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What is a building safety case?
The case is the work, the report is the write-up, and they are not the same thing. The difference decides what you commission first.
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Does this apply
What counts as a higher-risk building?
Height, storeys and units, and the exclusions that catch people out. None of this applies unless the building is in scope.
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Who owns it
Responsible Person vs Accountable Person
Two regimes, two duty-holders, often the same building and sometimes the same person. Worth being clear which hat you are wearing.
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Wider record set
What documents should your building hold?
This check covers the safety case headings only. That one covers the whole record set a building should be keeping, whatever its height.
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Plain English
Fire safety jargon
PAP, golden thread, building assessment certificate, mandatory occurrence reporting. The terms used on this page, explained.
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Building Safety Act support
Registration, the safety case, resident engagement and the evidence behind it, coordinated independently. We carry out none of the physical work.
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You can only write up what someone has actually given you.
Send us the gaps and we will tell you who is likely to hold the missing material, what a realistic order of work looks like, and what a straight independent read would involve. We have no works arm, so there is nothing for us to sell you at the end of it.