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Compliance and Specialist Risk
This category groups the compliance work a managed building or estate generates: asbestos, water hygiene, hazardous substances, electrical and gas safety, lifting and pressure equipment, work equipment and the records that tie them together. Which specialist input applies depends on the asset, how it is used and who holds the duty.
Individual services
- Asbestos Management — Keeps the register, survey information and controls for asbestos-containing materials usable by the dutyholder.
- Business Continuity — Plans for the ways a premises or building-services failure could halt critical activity.
- Compliance Audits — Checks whether a property's duties, inspection regimes and action records are backed by producible evidence.
- Compliance Remedial Works — Carries out the repairs or actions raised by an assessment, inspection or audit and evidences their closure.
- COSHH Assessments — Looks at how site tasks could expose people to substances hazardous to health and whether controls are adequate.
- Damp and Mould Investigations — Traces the moisture sources and building conditions behind recurring damp or mould so the remedy deals with the cause.
- DSEAR Assessments — Assesses fire, explosion and related risks from dangerous substances stored, used or generated at work.
- Electrical Compliance — Lines up inspection, maintenance and remedial records with the installation and equipment actually on site.
- Fire-Safety Compliance — Pulls the assessment, protective systems and management actions into one property record.
- Gas Compliance — Arranges appropriate inspection, servicing and remedial work around the gas installation and its use.
- Health and Safety — Identifies practical controls for building work and its operational interfaces, within an agreed scope.
- Indoor Air Quality — Investigates air conditions in occupied areas and the likely sources of any pollutant.
- Legionella Risk Assessments — Examines a site's water systems for legionella risk and sets out the controls needed.
- LEV Compliance and Testing — Assesses and tests the local exhaust ventilation that captures hazardous substances at source.
- Lifting Equipment Compliance — Brings identity, maintenance, examination and defect actions for each item of lifting equipment into one arrangement.
- LOLER Compliance — Coordinates the arrangements and records that apply to lifting equipment and lifting operations at work.
- Permit to Work — Sets up a controlled authorisation route for selected hazardous tasks and their interfaces.
- Pressure Systems Compliance — Identifies the relevant equipment, examination arrangements and actions needed to manage stored-energy risk.
- PUWER Compliance — Reviews how work equipment is chosen, used, maintained and inspected in its actual operating context.
- Statutory Compliance Management — Organises the inspections, evidence and follow-up actions that a property's duties generate.
Our full service catalogue, including every individual service, is available across every listed sector and location. For one site or several, we agree the scope, access and programme around the buildings concerned.
Which service do you need?
Understanding a risk or testing a control arrangement is an assessment; checking the condition of plant is an inspection or examination; acting on a reported finding is remedial work. Management support keeps the three scheduled and recorded but does not replace the specialist judgement each relies on.
Repairs, maintenance and projects
A fault reported today, a task on the planned maintenance schedule and a change planned for a later budget period each need their own instruction. When a finding moves between them, carry the original report with it so the work still answers the problem found. See maintenance for standing arrangements and projects for coordinated change.
On an estate, feed local findings into the wider asset and capital plan without letting an urgent defect lose its priority inside a larger programme.
Planning the work
Define the premises boundary and name who controls each area or system, particularly where landlord and occupier responsibilities meet. Build the instruction from the assets you actually have and the reports on file. Agree in advance the access, the limits of investigation, the safety restrictions and the evidence that will close each action, and supply site contacts, operating constraints and the report format your compliance records need.
Work across sectors
Laboratory and industrial sites bring process-specific substances and equipment. Managing agents need the landlord and occupier split set out clearly; schools and care settings need work planned around vulnerable people. The setting should shape the duties and controls. The full list of sectors is wider than these examples.
Locations covered
Sites across Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Tees Valley are covered, including Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, Darlington and Middlesbrough; the location directory has the detail. For an estate programme, provide every address and a local contact for each.
Frequently asked questions
Can I raise an enquiry before I know which service applies?
Yes. Explain the problem, the system or area affected and the outcome you need. An earlier report or fault log usually shows whether the first step is an assessment, a maintenance arrangement or a remedial instruction.
Can the inspection and the follow-on repairs be arranged as one job?
They can be programmed together, as long as the findings, the proposed repair and the authorisation stay distinct in the record. Some items need specialist examination or separate verification, so one visit may not cover every stage.
What drives the cost?
The type of system or building, the amount of work, access and the condition found set the scope. Record gaps, concealed conditions, temporary arrangements and limits on working hours can add investigation or coordination time.
What should I include in an enquiry?
The address, the asset or area concerned, the symptoms or planned change, previous reports and access constraints. For a multi-site instruction, add asset references and say which sites take priority.
Guides and supporting information
Read what is remedial action tracking for the decisions and records behind an action list, and remedial-action tracking for how a finding is carried to closure. The official guidance sets the technical and management context. Keep every report, photograph and completion record linked to the property and job.
Related work
See all services, then maintenance, projects, sectors and locations. Each service page above sets out the decisions and preparation for its part of the category.
Make an enquiry
Send Black & White Facilities your site or asset list, the findings you hold and the operational priorities that shape when work can happen. Say who reports to whom and who signs off each action. Discuss your requirement.
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