Health and Safety Executive

Domestic safety issues in local authority and other rented housing

This Sector Information Minute provides background information to operational staff about domestic safety issues affecting local and public authorities in the context of landlords’ duties in social housing and other domestic accommodation.

It includes information from HSE domestic safety alerts on scalding risk from heating systems and explosion risk from redundant back boilers previously circulated to all local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales.

View SIM 07/2008/07


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