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A guide to HHSRS

Improving property safety for tenants through the HHSRS

The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) is a risk-based evaluation tool used by local councils and landlords in England and Wales to inspect residential properties for potential health and safety hazards. It assesses 21 hazards—such as damp, excess cold, and falls—and generates a severity score that dictates the actions by the landlord or whether authorities must legally force the landlord to make repairs.

Nuts and Bolts ‘A Guide to the HHSRS’ training course has been designed to provide a full overview of the rating system that will help you to keep homes safe, healthy and free of hazards. 

The course will enable participants to gain an up to date knowledge of the requirements of the rating system and an understanding of how it should be applied during property inspections. You will also learn about the requirements of the standard as it relates to specific areas of the building including: asbestos, carbon monoxide, condensation, electrical systems and appliances, heating and insulation. 

Course content

The course covers

  • Principles behind the new system
  • The 21 Hazards
  • Property surveys and the survey form
  • Identifying deficiencies and understanding risk
  • Harm outcomes
  • The hazard assessment and a model
  • Decent Homes Standard
  • Enforcement using the HHSRS
  • Awaabs Law

Learning aims

  1. To introduce delegates to the HHSRS
  2. To give delegates the skills to carry out a HHSRS assessment
  3. To help the organisation understand how they need to adjust practice to incorporate the HHSRS

The HHSRS courses we currently offer have been updated to include the changes that were introduced in June 2026.

Who is this course for

This course will benefit managers responsible for staff who assess properties, housing officers, estate managers, environmental health officers or private property managers.

When and where are courses held?

We can deliver this course in-house if you have 6 or more candidates, if you have less numbers you can join one of our on-line courses delivered via Teams.

You will be sent a comprehensive workbook which can retained and which will act as a reference guide for the future.

Our trainer for this course is highly experienced in the HHSRS field and has been delivering training in this area for over 15 years to housing associations, local authorities and letting companies.

New Accredited 2- day course now available

If you are looking for an accredited option you could enrol on the two-day version of the HHSRS course that has been accredited by Highfield Qualifications, one of the leading awarding organisations in the UK.

This more advanced course covers the same content as the above plus more training on inspections, a marked HHSRS  assessment set as homework and an exam. The HHSRS assessments are carried out and marked between the first days training on the and the second day which is a few weeks later. The further training and exam will take place on that second day.

If delegates successfully pass both the assessment and the exam they will be awarded an accredited certificate from Highfield Qualifications and Nuts and Bolts Training. Please note this is not a qualification but an accredited training course.

Next course – 24th September – get in touch to reserve your place

To book email info@nutsandboltstraining.co.uk or call 0333 355 4165

If you have six or more participants our expert tutors will come to your workplace to deliver the course.

To book this course or for more information please call 0333 355 4165 or email info@nutsandboltstraining.co.uk