O N L I N E V E R S I O N THE REQUIREMENTS J Please note that the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations apply to buildings exempt under the Building Regulations. Interaction with other legislation The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 Materials and workmanship Any building work which is subject to the requirements imposed by Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations shall be carried out in accordance with regulation 7. Guidance on meeting these requirements on materials and workmanship is contained in Approved Document 7. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 contain some requirements which affect building design.
The main requirements are now covered by the Building Regulations, but for further information see: Workplace health, safety and welfare. Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. Approved Code of Practice L24. Published by HSE Books 1992 (ISBN 0 7176 0413 6). Building Regulations are made for specific purposes, primarily the health and safety, welfare and convenience of people and for energy conservation. Standards and other technical specifications may provide relevant guidance to the extent that they relate to these considerations.
However, they may also address other aspects of performance or matters which, although they relate to health and safety etc., are not covered by the Building Regulations. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 apply to the common parts of flats and similar buildings if people such as cleaners and caretakers are employed to work in these common parts. Where the requirements of the Building Regulations that are covered by this Part do not apply to dwellings, the provisions may still be required in the situations described above in order to satisfy the Workplace Regulations.
When an Approved Document makes reference to a named standard, the relevant version of the standard to which it refers is the one listed at the end of the publication. However, if this version has been revised or updated by the issuing standards body, the new version may be used as a source of guidance provided it continues to address the relevant requirements of the Regulations. Smoke control areas Under the Clean Air Act 1993 as amended by the Environment Act 2021, local authorities may declare the whole or part of the district of the authority to be a smoke control area.
This means that it is an offence to emit a substantial amount of smoke from a chimney of a building, from a furnace or from any fixed boiler if located in a designated smoke control area. It is also an offence to acquire an ‘unauthorised fuel’ for use within a smoke control area unless it is used in an exempt appliance. Supplementary guidance The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities occasionally issues additional material to aid interpretation of the guidance in Approved Documents. This material may be conveyed in official letters to chief executives of local authorities and Approved Inspectors and/or posted on the websites accessed through:
www.gov.uk/housing-local-and-community/ planning-and-building. Authorised fuels are fuels which are authorised by Statutory Instruments (Regulations) made under the Clean Air Act 1993. These include inherently smokeless fuels such as gas and anthracite together with specified brands of manufactured solid smokeless fuels. These fuels have passed tests to confirm that they are capable of burning in an open fireplace without producing any smoke or a substantial quantity of smoke. Exempt appliances are appliances (ovens, wood burners, boilers and stoves) which have been exempted by Statutory Instruments (Orders) under the Clean Air Act 1993.
These have passed tests to confirm that they are capable of burning an unauthorised or inherently smoky solid fuel without producing any smoke or a substantial quantity of smoke. More information and details of authorised fuels and exempt appliances can be found on the internet at http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/ 7 Approved Document J Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems O N L I N E V E R S I O N