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HHSRS and the 29 Hazards: A Supported Housing Checklist

Use this checklist to structure HHSRS assessments across your housing stock, and keep remedial actions visible.

What HHSRS expects you to manage

The Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) assesses dwellings against 29 hazards. Supported housing providers need a clear record of assessments, hazard scores, and remedial actions, not a folder of one-off surveys.

This checklist is a practical prompt list for managers and property teams. It is not a substitute for qualified surveyor advice.

Checklist: physiological & crowding hazards

Confirm you can evidence assessment and action for:

  • Damp and mould growth
  • Excess cold / excess heat
  • Asbestos and MMF
  • Biocides
  • Carbon monoxide and fuel combustion products
  • Lead
  • Radiation
  • Uncombusted fuel gas
  • Volatile organic compounds
  • Crowding and space
  • Entry by intruders
  • Lighting
  • Noise

Checklist: protection against accidents & infection

Also track:

  • Domestic hygiene, pests, and refuse
  • Food safety
  • Personal hygiene, sanitation, and drainage
  • Water supply
  • Falls (bath, level surfaces, stairs, between levels)
  • Electrical hazards
  • Fire
  • Flames, hot surfaces, and materials
  • Collision and entrapment
  • Explosions
  • Position and operability of amenities
  • Structural collapse and falling elements

What good digital evidence looks like

For each property or unit, keep the assessment date, hazard findings, scores where used, photos, remedial actions, owners, and completion dates. Link the record to the resident file when a hazard affects support or placement decisions.

GreenShoots supports HHSRS-oriented property and repairs tracking so compliance work sits beside tenancy and case management, not in a disconnected spreadsheet.

Frequently asked questions

Follow your organisational HHSRS procedure and any commissioner requirements. The 29 hazards are the framework; your policy defines frequency and depth of assessment.

Yes. GreenShoots includes HHSRS and housing-condition workflows alongside repairs logging so remedial work stays visible to managers.

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