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The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) is the statutory method used in England and Wales to assess housing conditions. Established under the Housing Act 2004, it provides a risk-based framework for identifying hazards in residential properties.
16th December 2025
Salma Crisp MRICS
Launching on Wednesday 17th December 2025, the new HHSRS Dashboard in Lifespan Housing provides a single, intuitive view of HHSRS data across your assets. With clear charts and category summaries, it offers instant insight into hazards, helping housing providers and inspectors monitor risk and prioritise action more effectively.
Supporting compliance through better insight
The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) remains a core statutory framework for assessing housing conditions across England and Wales. Designed to identify potential hazards within residential properties, HHSRS ensures homes meet essential standards of health, safety and wellbeing.
The dashboard is split into two core views:
1. Summary View: Immediate understanding of hazard distributions
The Summary View condenses your full dataset into clear groupings, allowing you to identify concentrations of hazards across key HHSRS categories. This includes the following:
Physiological Requirements: Damp, mould, excess cold, excess heat, asbestos, radiation and other pollutants.
Psychological Requirements: Space, security, lighting and noise.
Protection Against Infection: Hygiene, sanitation, water supply and food safety.
Protection Against Accidents:
· Electric shocks, fires, burns and scalds
· Collisions, cuts and strains
· Falls (on level surfaces, steps, stairs, between levels)
This structured overview allows teams to quickly establish where the highest-risk issues sit and where targeted interventions may be required.
2. Progress View: Track improvements over time
The Progress View focuses on trends, allowing organisations to see the impact of works, interventions or programmed maintenance. Users can monitor month-by-month movement across categories such as:
· Physiological Requirements
· Pollutants (non-microbial)
· Psychological Requirements and Protection Against Infection
· Hygiene, Sanitation and Water Supply
· Electric Shocks, Fires, Burns and Scalds
· Collisions, Cuts and Strains
· Protection Against Falls
This enables compliance teams to measure performance improvements, demonstrate progress against policy commitments and report outcomes to boards, regulators and residents.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Lifespan Team via our helpdesk
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