The draft Building Safety Bill: What and who is a ‘building safety manager’? What environment will they will be working within?

Author's Biography

Anthony Taylor is the director of group health and safety for Avison Young, an international real estate consultancy with its head office in the City of London and regional offices across the UK. Anthony has 30 years’ health and safety and operational risk management experience in a wide range of industry sectors including real estate, construction, insurance, local authority, leisure and for a global tour operator. Anthony currently chairs the RICS Health and Safety Advisory Board and is a past chair of the Managing Agents Property H&S Forum. He has also had the privilege to be asked to chair the Industry Response Group’s Working Group 8, in regard to the new building safety manager role proposed by Dame Judith Hackitt subsequent to the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.

Claire Morrissey is an experienced regulatory criminal defence lawyer who advises businesses and individuals on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious issues. Notably, Claire’s recent work includes taking a leading role in the work of the team representing a corporate core participant in the Grenfell Tower public inquiry. Claire advises clients at all stages of regulatory investigations from crisis management, initial interactions with regulators, investigations, interviews under caution, enforcement notices and appeals through to representation at criminal proceedings and inquests.