Setting Expectations on Competence Management
The Industry Competence Committee (ICC) has recently published setting expectations on competence management guidance on HSE’s citizen space. Industry consultation on this guidance is open for response until 6 November 2025.
The document and link to respond can be accessed here.
The ICC was formed under the Building Safety Act 2022 to provide strategic leadership, assistance and encouragement to facilitate the improvement of competence in the built environment industry. It advises both the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and industry on matters of competence.
The ICC is committed to setting expectations for industry by sharing clear principles on how organisations could manage the competence of those working for them.
This document is aimed at organisations who:
• Carry out any design or any building work (in all buildings)
• Manage buildings, and particularly those that manage Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs)
The guidance builds on feedback received from industry consultation in May 2025. It is intended to give ICC’s broad expectations for how organisations should manage competence, by setting out what the common elements and principles are for all organisations.
The ICC wants to ensure that these principles:
• Will assist industry in development of competence management processes
• Are understandable
Feedback is being sought on these points.
Following the industry consultation period, ICC will build on this guidance by developing case studies and examples, to assist industry at a more practical level.
