HHSRS Training (Housing Health and Safety Rating System)

What will you learn?

• How the HHSRS operates, and how to undertake competent and reliable assessments for routine inspections of occupied and void properties within England and Wales.

• The hazards of damp, mould, and excess cold.

• How to assess hazards, produce risk scores, interpret these and identify what type of hazard would mean the property does not meet the legal minimum condition standard for housing, to therefore identify the potential remedial action that you can take to reduce the level of risk.

• The various enforcement or other courses of action available to local authorities and tenants to have hazards addressed within your properties.

• An understanding of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act and its implications for your organisation, and the records/practical actions that you can take to address this.

• The records and practical actions that you can take to address the risk of action and to keep residents safe from hazards.