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Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS)

  • Housing Health and Safety Rating System. HA 2004.
  • This requires landlords or letting agents to conduct a risk assessment on all properties in accordance with a 29 point checklist and
  • to take steps to minimise such risks.
  1. PHYSIOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS:
    Hydrothermal Conditions:
    1. Damp and mould growth
    2. Excess cold
    3. Excess heat
  2. Pollutants (non-microbial):
    1. Asbestos (and MMF)
    2. Biocides
    3. Carbon Monoxide and fuel combustion products
    4. Lead
    5. Radiation
    6. Un-combusted fuel gas
    7. Volatile Organic Compounds
  3. Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS):
    Space, Security, Light and Noise:
    1. Crowding and space
    2. Entry by intruders
    3. Lighting
    4. Noise 
  4. PROTECTION AGAINST INFECTION:
    Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Supply: 
    1. Domestic hygiene, Pests and Refuse
    2. Food safety
    3. Personal hygiene, Sanitation and Drainage - e.g. includes risk from Legionella - e.g. where water rests in pipes undisturbed for a time at certain warm temperatures, bacteria accumulate, so when arriving at a property after a possible period of non-occupancy flush toilets since inhaled vaporised droplets can be harmful - particularly to vulnerable people with lowered immune systems, e.g. during or following illness..
    4. Water supply for Domestic Purposes - following a vacation or upon first arrival run taps for a short time before drinking to ensure fresh and free of Legionnaires' disease. 
  5. PROTECTION AGAINST ACCIDENTS:
    Falls: 
    1. Falls associated with baths, etc.
    2. Falls on the level
    3. Falls associated with stairs and steps (ensure adequate handrails)
    4. Falls between level 
      Electric Shocks, Fires, Burns and Scalds: 
    5. Electrical hazards (fit trip switches)
    6. Fire(provide smoke and heat detectors, fire blanket, etc.) fire certificates evince due diligence.
    7. Hot surfaces and materials 
      Collisions, Cuts and Strains: 
    8. Collision and entrapment
    9. Explosions
    10. Ergonomics (human factors affecting the ability to function, e.g. opening a fire door with no physical strength to push the door open if elderly). Leydon Lettings has just agreed to alter a period property which is not dangerous per se but presents a risk to the tenant who suffers from dizzy spells.
    11. Structural collapse and failing element
Published: 8 November 2013 Last Updated: 17 November 2021

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