Which sections each hazard uses
Every hazard type activates its own set of wizard sections and report sections from one registry entry. This article puts all 13 side by side, so it’s easy to see what’s shared and what’s hazard-specific.
What it is
Every hazard type carries the same hazard-agnostic tail regardless of which is chosen: Hazard Triage, Emergency Actions (shown only once a case is judged an emergency), a floor plan, the narrative-review accordion, an executive summary, remedial recommendations, scope of works, and sign-off. What differs is the hazard-specific evidence sections in between.
| Hazard type | Hazard-specific wizard sections | HHSRS scoring step? |
|---|---|---|
| Damp & mould | Weather, Soil & Drainage, External Analysis, Rooms, Psychrometrics, Condensation & U-value | Yes |
| Excess cold | External Analysis, Rooms, Psychrometrics, Condensation & U-value, Heating & Insulation | Yes |
| Excess heat | Rooms, Weather, Psychrometrics, Excess Heat | Yes |
| Falls on the level | Rooms, Falls | Yes |
| Falling on stairs etc. | Rooms, Falls | Yes |
| Falling between levels | Rooms, Falls | Yes |
| Structural collapse | Rooms, External Analysis, Structural Collapse | Yes |
| Fire and explosions | Rooms, Fire & Explosions | Yes |
| Electrical hazards | Rooms, Electrical Safety | Yes |
| Domestic hygiene | Rooms, Domestic Hygiene | Yes |
| Asbestos | Rooms, Asbestos Register (no HHSRS step — HSG227 scoring instead) | No |
| Indoor air quality | Rooms, Weather, Psychrometrics, Air Quality Readings | Yes |
| Radon | Rooms, Radon Test | Yes |
How it integrates
The report a hazard type produces follows the same shared-plus-specific pattern: every report includes hazard-triage, emergency-actions, GPS proof, client instructions, the legal disclaimer, property information, a statutory timeline (where a live or pending clock applies), an HHSRS assessment (asbestos excepted), a remedial recommendation, a floor-plan sketch, an executive summary, the surveyor’s declaration and tenant acknowledgement, and case notes — then one hazard-specific assessment section: damp & mould’s full narrative set, excess cold’s or excess heat’s own assessment, the shared falls-assessment section, structural-assessment, fire-safety-assessment, electrical-assessment, hygiene-assessment, the asbestos register (or its refurbishment/demolition twin), the air-quality-assessment, or the radon-test-result.
Common problems
- A section I expected for one hazard doesn’t appear for another. That’s by design — each hazard type only activates the sections genuinely relevant to it, rather than showing every possible section for every survey.
- Two hazard types look almost identical in this table. The three falls profiles and, to a lesser extent, several Phase 2 hazards deliberately reuse the same rooms/floor-plan/sign-off shell — the difference between them is the specific evidence recorded, not the surrounding structure.