By law, a landlord is required to get a Gas Safe registered engineer to do an annual gas safety check on all gas appliances. The results of these checks are recorded in your Landlord Gas Safety Record.

Electrical installation must meet regulated standards in order to ensure safety. Faults with the fuse board, switches or sockets could cause electric shock or fire, causing injury and damage to occupants.

Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) is the term used to describe the examination of electrical appliances and equipment to ensure they are safe to use. Most electrical safety defects can be found by visual examination but some types of defect can only be found by testing.

An EPC is short for an Energy Performance Certificate, a report that assesses the energy efficiency of a property. The report considers things like how well insulated the property is. It will also tell you how much your bills might cost.

Fire Risk Assessments (or FRAs) are a snapshot of how protected any given property is to ensure the safety of its occupants in the event of a fire. The FRA also identifies corrective actions and further steps to achieve an appropriate level of fire safety.

If you own or are in charge of a property built before the year 2000, it may have asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) within the structure. This means you have to make sure that the correct asbestos survey is carried out to identify and manage the risk of any ACMs present.

A drain survey is an in-depth inspection of your drainage system, using high-tech CCTV cameras which are inserted into your drains. These drainage cameras send a live feed back to us, letting your drainage engineer get a good view into your drains so they can identify any issues that might be present.

From 1 October 2015, private sector landlords must have at least one smoke alarm installed on every storey of their property and also ensure all alarms work properly at the start of each new tenancy.

It is really important that emergency lights are given a part-test monthly and a full-rated duration test every year. That means the emergency lights should provide 3 hours of illumination and that they have been tested for the full period.