The Business Benefits of 100% Safety Compliance

Bringing social housing safety compliance under control is a positive outcome in its own right. It offers reassurance that there are no potential problems lurking unseen beneath the surface.

But once you’ve reached this state of affairs many other benefits flow.

Risk Management

Managing risk is a key leadership challenge for any organisation – and compliance is (or should be) at the top of every social housing provider’s risk register. You can’t manage risk without managing the data.

There are obvious safety and reputational risks of compliance data you can’t trust or easily access. There are also unquantified financial risks if you don’t fully understand stock condition and the likely extent of remedial works.

Better Data Means Better Decisions

Social housing asset management is becoming more complex with new regulations covering safety, resident engagement and property condition. There’s also the need to prepare for net zero carbon and the extensive retrofit programmes that will be needed.

There’s no escaping the fact that social housing asset management will be data-driven. Compliance is the obvious place to start as it covers the entire stock

Efficiency

Every social housing provider’s repair and maintenance team (whether outsourced or in-house) is finding it hard to find skilled operatives. This reflects the skills shortage across the construction sector. In many cases the result is a major repairs backlog.

Finances are also under pressure. The resources that are available have to be deployed as efficiently as possible across multiple work streams. They must work proactively rather than reactively wherever possible. This can’t be done without accurate and usable stock condition data in a common environment. Again, compliance is an excellent place to start building this asset database.

Compliance data distributed across multiple systems in different formats isn’t a good starting place if you want to guarantee 100% safety compliance, reduce risks and improve productivity.

Osborne has a software tool that will extract compliance data from multiple sources in almost any format. Key data is then in one environment and available in real time on any device. This could be the foundation you need to start building a data-driven, productive and efficient repairs and maintenance service.

For more information contact Alex McLean [email protected] or take a look at our resource centre.