Social Housing Training

Practical, up-to-date training for housing associations, local authorities and other social landlords. Our courses help housing officers, managers, maintenance and compliance teams understand their legal duties and keep residents safe.

All courses are delivered by OHSS at your premises or online, and can be tailored to your organisation. They are in-house OHSS courses (not accredited by an awarding body); every delegate who completes a course receives an OHSS certificate for their CPD records.

Length: half day (4 hours)
For: housing officers, estate and property managers, housing association staff, compliance teams and Responsible Persons

• The legal framework: Housing Act 2004, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the Fire Safety Act 2021, the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
• Roles and duties: Responsible Person, Accountable Person, competent persons, managing agents, landlords and residents
• Fire risk assessment principles and reviews
• Compartmentation, fire doors, alarms, emergency lighting and other fire protection
• Evacuation strategies, including stay put, simultaneous evacuation, PEEPs and GEEPs
• Enforcement, notices and prosecutions

A practical session with group discussion, scenario exercises, a “spot the defect” photo exercise and real case studies, finishing with a short knowledge check.

Led by Brian Claydon CMIOSH MIFSM.

Length: half day
For: housing association staff, maintenance teams, housing officers and care home managers

• What legionella is and how Legionnaires’ disease spreads
• Why housing and care settings carry extra risk for vulnerable residents
• Legal duties, the HSE Approved Code of Practice L8 and HSG274 Part 2 (hot and cold water systems)
• Control measures: temperature management and flushing little-used outlets
• Monitoring and record keeping, including taking temperature readings
• Responding to common problems, such as empty properties between tenancies

Practical, plain-English guidance with case studies and a multiple-choice knowledge check at the end.

Length: 1 day (6.5 hours’ contact time), face to face or online
For: supervisors and managers in housing, repairs, asset and compliance teams, and surveyors

• The revised Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) in force from June 2026: the 21 hazards, banding, harm classes and baseline indicators
• The rating method step by step, with worked examples and scoring exercises
• Category 1 and 2 hazards, notices, orders, appeals and civil penalties
• Fitness for human habitation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985
• Awaab’s Law: emergency and significant hazards, timescales and how the phases are being introduced
• Responding to a report: triage, investigation, written summaries, repairs, records, the Regulator and the Ombudsman

Six practical activities, including a photo walk-through, hazard scoring cards, an enforcement card sort, a timeline build and case studies, with an end-of-day knowledge check and practical scoring exercise.

 
 
 
 
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Great coarse, made easy by a fantastic tutor
  
 
 
 
 
 
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Amazing training, would highly recommend!
  
 
 
 
 
 
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Excellent training everything was really well explained
Would highly recommended
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 Dominic Gray 
 
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Completed IOSH managing safely with OHSS. Brian is knowledgable and has worked in the industry for a long time so has plenty of stories and anecdotes to keep things interesting and informative
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 Michelle Effendy 
 
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5 stars. Thanks Brian I feel confident in managing health and safety at work now😊
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 Alex Margerison 
 
114 days ago
 
 
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I wasn’t sure how I would feel entering a training course for managing health and safety as it’s not an area I get enjoyment in. However, Brian made the course really enjoyable so props to him. Thankyou.
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 James Smith 
 
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Excellent delivery, made it interesting and enjoyed the course. Very informative in a comprehensible way too.
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 ryan goode 
 
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Fantastic teacher
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 Andrew Smith 
 
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Brian kept the course interesting and relevant.  Very enjoyable.
  
 
 
 
 
 
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 Chris O 
 
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Great IOSH course, he kept it light and as entertaining as H&S could be.
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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