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New Building Regulator delayed he new Building Safety Regulator being established by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the wake of the failings uncovered by the Grenfell Tower fire is not likely to be up and running until 2021, the UK government has admitted. The scope of projects covered by the regulator is also likely to be
the government aims to do ‘as soon as possible’ to implement the legislative recommendations of the Grenfell Tower public inquiry phase 1 report. The first phase of the inquiry, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, highlighted ‘serious shortcomings’ in the London Fire Brigade’s preparedness for and response to the June 2017 inferno that killed 72 people.
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wider than originally thought. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government told IOSH magazine that although the board, headed up by former HSE chair Dame Judith Hackitt, met for the first time in midFebruary, the new regulator won’t be fully established until the Fire Safety Bill has been enacted, which
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