Agenda item

The Committee received a report of the Corporate Director of Regeneration, Economy and Growth that provided an update on the Council’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) performance for Quarter two 2023/24 (for copy see file of minutes).

K Lough highlighted the key areas of the report that included the Quarter 2:

·      Number of incidents

·      Audit and Inspections

·      Employee Health and Wellbeing

·      Open Water Safety

·      Occupation Health Service

·      Radon gas

·      RAAC

·      Potentially Violent Persons Register

Councillor Kellett was concerned that St Leonards School in Durham had been badly affected by RAAC.  He did not think that it affected modern building only older ones.

K Lough explained that St Leonards School was an Academy and they had worked closely with the DfE regarding the RAAC in the building.  The students had been moved to a temporary site and they were looking for a longer-term solution.  Discussions had taken place to see if the site could be refurbished or if it would need a new building.  He added that RAAC primarily affected buildings that were built 40-50 years ago. 

P Darby stated that RAAC had affected some older buildings and with the site at St Leonards School being on 3 storeys the RAAC had been found in the roof and floors.  If buildings were pre 1950s then potentially it was not the main construction that was affected but extensions and repairs that had done subsequently that had used RAAC.  The government had changed their guidelines several times and the priority was inspecting anything that had been built between 1930 and early 2000.

Resolved:

That the report be agreed