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Experts call for old safety measures to be updated
by Felicity Collier

ENVIRONMENTAL health workers across the country are calling on the government to update housing safety measures, in the wake of Grenfell.

Some 97 per cent said government guidance needed updating, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) found.

Current regulations to protect tenants’ wellbeing were brought in over a decade ago.

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