BMC hut guidelines

The BMC Huts Group publish, and regularly update, a series of guidelines covering topics of interest to clubs which own huts.

These topics include new legislation, safety regulations and responses to common queries. The guidelines are drawn up by volunteers and produced jointly by the BMC Huts Group and the Mountaineering Council of Scotland's Huts Working Group.

All the guidelines are in pdf format.

Guideline 1: Club Organisation and Ownership of Property

Guideline 2: Health and Safety

Guideline 3.1: Fire Safety – England and Wales

Guideline 3.2: Fire Safety – Scotland

Guideline 4: Disability Discrimination

Guideline 5: Hut Maintenance

Guideline 6: Combined Liability Insurance Protection

Guideline 7: Managing Asbestos in Premises

Guideline 8: Sources of Funding

Guideline 9: Hut Trustees – England and Wales

Guideline 10.1: Private Water Supplies – England and Wales

Guideline 10.2: Private Water Supplies – Scotland

Guideline 11.1: Safeguarding Children in Huts – England and Wales

Guideline 11.2: Safeguarding Children in Huts – Scotland

Guideline 12: Legionella

Guideline 13: Planning and managing major building works

Guideline 14: Going green – energy saving

Guideline 15: Employer's Liability Insurance

Guideline 16.1: Small Sewage Discharges – England and Wales


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