James McNay joins HSE Industry Competence Committee (ICC) to guide safer building construction for everyone

“We’re all aware that Dame Judith Hackitt’s review of building regulations and fire safety identified a lack of skills, knowledge and experience across industry, contributing to poor safety and standards in buildings. One key outcome of the BSA was to establish the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to facilitate improvement in the competence of industry and in building inspectors. The ICC is the next tier of governance to ensure the BSR achieves its purpose, with a number of functions including monitoring industry competence, helping industry to improve competence and producing guidance to the public about assessing the competence of people in the built environment industry. To be part of this committee is a real coup, and means we’re going to be able to have a long-lasting impact on the standards of competence across the built environment.”

“Collectively we’re a driving force for good, which in this instance is bringing industry-leading best practice that’s going to ensure the improvement of building safety, both for high-risk buildings and across the entire built environment. As a business we’re doing so much around this agenda, for example our digital golden thread product and the development of our own in-house talent development programme. James is well placed to take his experience to the committee which will chime with its overall goal to raise competence and contribute to a pipeline of competent people for the new regulatory regime.”