Consultancy

We are Housing LMS Consultancy

Training // Consultancy // Expertise

Housing LMS was established in 2020 to meet the growing needs of the housing and property sector, building on the existing reputation of our sister company Training LMS.

Bringing together experts from across the housing and property fields, our aim is to provide relevant, quality training solutions, meeting the needs of the students and their employers, delivered in an innovative and flexible manner.

Practical - Our training has been developed by industry practitioners who understand the practical steps required to build competency and best practice in Building Safety Management and Fire Safety.
Flexible - training can be delivered online via live webinars, giving you the opportunity to interact with tutors and peers, enhancing the learning experience.
Authentic – Our formal L6 courses are CIOB accredited, giving you internationally recognised qualifications at the end of your studies.
Credible - We draw on a panel of nationally recognised industry experts who give an additional in-depth insight into the different modules of study.

Bespoke workshops and consultancy.

We offer a range of tailored training sessions and consultancy support based on your organisation’s needs, from general awareness for housing and estate staff through to Executive and Board awareness training.

Live online training, designed to build competencies
in Building Safety & Fire Safety for industry practitioners.

Our service – improving competence

We provide a mixture of techniques to deliver your brief, based upon your colleagues’ differing roles and responsibilities. These services can be delivered in-person, virtual, or in pre-recorded video format. Or in mixed media.

Building Safety Readiness review

We can carry out a Readiness Assessment for your organisation to review your service offer against legal and regulatory requirements and provide a detailed plan with recommendations to get you where you need to be.

Board, Executive Team training

We provide in-person or virtual sessions designed to bring Board and Executive Members up to date with legislative and regulatory changes, and just as importantly what their own roles and responsibilities (including the duties of the Principal Accountable Person) are. It may challenge existing perceptions, looking specifically at risks and how to mitigate them. It is likely that it will touch on culture and behaviours - and what may need to change.

Building safety masterclass

These one-day workshop sessions are designed to help managers understand their obligations and duties under the building safety act and give them the tools needed to provide the leadership to ensure compliance.

Building safety awareness workshops

These sessions should ideally be attended by Building Safety, Property Safety, Compliance, Assets, Repairs, Housing Management and Estate Management staff - those staff members who have day to day interaction with tenants, properties, or responsibility for Building Safety within their roles. These sessions can be delivered as many times as necessary with a maximum of 20 members of staff in each session.

Anticipated outcomes

Once we understand the way you would like to group colleagues, we can design bespoke sessions dependant on specific requirements. However, we would expect that the overall, the sessions will deliver the following outcomes but with different emphasis depending on the participants:

Services

Why building safety management is important

Understanding of the difference between building safety and compliance

The legal requirements of the new legislation

The value of and requirement to successfully engaging with residents

Personal and organisational accountability and responsibility, including the duties of the Principal Accountable Person

A clear understanding of hazard identification and risk management

Maintaining a safety management system

The requirements of the Golden thread

How to implement mandatory occurrence reporting

Key principles on management of change

Assessing staff and contractor competence

Our Team

Course Director Brent O’Halloran MBA, MCIOB

Brent is a social housing specialist. He is a board member for a Housing Association, a Chartered Builder, and has over 25 years’ experience working at director level for several large housing organisations. As a high-profile advocate for improving the sector’s approach to building safety and asset management, he has gained a reputation for challenging convention. During his career he has implemented several successful big ideas, including same-day repairs, demand-led capital improvement programmes, increasing tenants’ choice for major works, and intelligence driven stock rationalisation exercises.

Since 2017 he has focussed on improving building safety within the housing sector, including overseeing a building safety taskforce to deliver £50m of cladding replacement works, and developing building safety regimes for a large social housing providers.

Brent is one of Housing LMS lecturers on the CIOB Level 6 Diploma in Building Safety.

Brent will be supported by our internal administration colleagues as necessary.

We are Housing LMS Consultancy