What it actually does.
The Building Safety Act 2022 created the Building Safety Regulator and a new regime for higher-risk residential buildings in England: buildings at least 18 metres in height or with at least seven storeys, containing two or more residential units.
For every such building in occupation, an Accountable Person must register it with the regulator, hold a current Building Assessment Certificate, manage building safety risks proactively through a documented safety case, maintain the Golden Thread of digital building information, and engage residents through a formal strategy. Fire doors sit inside every one of those duties.
Five things you must do.
Register the building
Every occupied higher-risk building in England must be registered with the Building Safety Regulator (the regulator, part of HSE). Operating an occupied HRB without registration is itself a criminal offence under section 77. The register sits at the heart of the new regime.
Hold a Building Assessment Certificate
The Principal Accountable Person must apply for, hold, and display a current Building Assessment Certificate issued by the regulator under sections 79 to 82. Without one, legal occupation cannot continue. Renewal is on the regulator-set cycle.
Manage building safety risks
Accountable Persons must take all reasonable steps to prevent and reduce the severity of building safety risks (fire spread and structural failure) in the parts of the building they are responsible for. The safety case report is the documentary evidence of that management.
Maintain the Golden Thread
A digital, structured, accurate record of building safety information has to be kept current for the life of the building. Fire door specifications, inspection records, defect resolution, remedial works, and material certifications all sit inside it.
Engage residents formally
A written Resident Engagement Strategy must be in place setting out how residents are consulted on building safety decisions, how complaints are handled, and how building safety information is shared. The strategy must be reviewed and provided to residents in scope.
BSA Part 4 is criminal law.
Offences under the Building Safety Act are prosecuted by the Building Safety Regulator. The exposure ranges from regulatory takeover of safety management through to imprisonment for the most serious breaches.
BSA Part 4, mapped to the platform.
Golden Thread by default
Every fire door, every inspection, every defect, every remedial action retained indefinitely as a structured digital record. Built to satisfy the BSA Part 4 information duty out of the box, not bolted on.
BSR-ready evidence pack
One-click export of the full fire door evidence trail for a building, ready for a Building Safety Regulator information request, a Building Assessment Certificate application, or a safety case update.
Safety case integration
Fire door condition surfaces into the Accountable Person's safety case report: open defects, overdue inspections, closer failures, all visible against the buildings the AP is responsible for under section 74.
Resident-facing transparency
QR plaques on every fire door give residents live compliance information from their own phone. Supports the Resident Engagement Strategy obligation under the Higher-Risk Buildings regulations without printed leaflet drops.
AP and PAP role separation
Multiple Accountable Persons across one building (freeholder, RMC, headlease, separate plant rooms) modelled in one workspace, with the Principal Accountable Person aggregating the building-wide picture.
Lifecycle audit trail
Append-only history that survives building sales, AP changes, and contractor changes. The Golden Thread is preserved on transfer rather than handed over as a folder of disconnected PDFs.