safety

Your home should always be a place where you feel safe, comfortable and secure.

Behind the scenes, housing associations work hard to maintain properties, carry out improvements and ensure homes remain safe for residents and their families.

One area that often goes unnoticed is environmental safety.

This includes managing materials and substances that may be present in older buildings and ensuring that any maintenance or refurbishment work is carried out safely and professionally.

That is where specialist companies such as Envirocall play an important role.

Housing safety and compliance professionals enter the second half of 2026 facing one of the most demanding periods the sector has seen. New legal duties, rising regulatory scrutiny, increasing expectations around competence and conduct, and persistent operational challenges are converging at the same time.

For the people responsible for keeping homes safe, this is not a year to watch from the sidelines. It is a year to be prepared, connected and ahead of what is coming.

John Street, Newham, a high‑rise residential development comprising Blocks A and C, has been equipped with a comprehensive life safety solution from Advanced, incorporating SmokeGo smoke control and EvacGo evacuation alert systems to support a stay‑put fire strategy and enhance resident safety.

Daniel Cheddie, founder and owner of Stronghold® Anchor, discusses removing the cost of scaffolding from high-rise maintenance and safety works.

Across the social housing sector, one challenge is becoming increasingly familiar. How do local authorities and housing associations deliver urgent safety-critical works in high-rise buildings when budgets are shrinking, access is difficult and residents rightly expect minimal disruption?

Local authorities and housing associations across the UK face mounting pressure to deliver safe, compliant refurbishment and new build programmes, often within severely constrained budgets and challenging timescales.

Nowhere is this more evident than in high-rise projects, where replacing windows at height has traditionally meant extensive scaffolding, increased risk and significant disruption to residents.

CHIC, a leading asset management and procurement consortium, is proud to announce the launch of its comprehensive Fire & Building Safety Framework. Designed to meet the evolving needs of its members, this framework provides a robust, compliant route to market for fire safety installations, servicing, maintenance and consultancy services.

Aico, a leader in home safety products based in Shropshire, has launched a new docu-series called "From Component to Ceiling." The series explores the lifecycle of Aico’s products, highlighting innovation, quality commitment, and product serialisations. It provides insights into Aico's operations, distributor relationships, and commitment to safety and reliability standards. The docu-series consists of a trailer and four 8-minute episodes, hosted on a dedicated microsite on the Aico website. A new episode is released each week, with the full version available in the final week: https://www.aico.co.uk/docu-series/