Includes failures in the safety-glazing arrangements for doors in occupied, rented or public premises, including non-compliant glazing, absent safety glazing, and failures to replace or make unsafe door glazing safe; include doors near stairs where the glazing increases the foreseeable injury risk.
What is not included
Excludes window fall-prevention, window-glass and door-opening hazards where the issue is not the safety of glazing in a door.
Excludes general building-regulation, fire-door or premises-maintenance deficiencies unless they directly concern safety glazing in doors.
Excludes ordinary glass doors where no safety risk or deficiency in glazing safety is identified.
Excludes glass in vehicles, furniture or products unless the assertion concerns the same safety-glazing control for doors.
Trends
Reports over time
Reports mentioning this concern, over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
Most frequent recipients
Most frequent recipients
Reports about this concern sent to each recipient.
Acis Group Limited1
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government1
South Kesteven District Council1
The Association of Conservative Clubs Ltd1
English district council1
Ministerial department1
Registered provider of social housing1
Type not available1
Reports and published responses 4 reports
See individual reports that have raised this concern, and the actions taken in response
Lincolnshire
Concerns raised1
Failure to replace internal glass doors in properties
Linked response
Acis Group Limited
Stated actions An action is something a respondent says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.7
Acis Group Limited
Revise the Lettable Standard to require replacement or encapsulation of single glazing before re-letting empty properties.
Acis Group Limited
Identify properties containing internal single-glazed doors or panels and establish a risk-prioritised improvement action plan using tenants’ known age and health needs.
Acis Group Limited
Contact identified tenants by priority band, providing information, advice and guidance about internal glazing and discussing potential replacement or encapsulation.
Acis Group Limited
Invite and support tenant reports of glazed doors through the website, digital portal, telephone contact and home visits, adding identified properties to remediation planning where appropriate.
Acis Group Limited
Add internal glazing to stock-condition survey data requirements so its presence is captured across the survey cycle.
Acis Group Limited
Engage a specialist contractor to support delivery of risk-prioritised remedial works.
Acis Group Limited
Conduct initial pre-works surveys and follow them with urgent remedial works where identified.
Respondent positions A position is what a respondent says about the concern when they do not describe a specific action.2
Acis Group Limited
Existing arrangements addressed internal single glazing over time because the inherent risk was considered low.
Existing arrangements considered sufficientThe respondent said that existing arrangements were sufficient, so no further action was needed.
Acis Group Limited
Remedial glazing works depend on tenants consenting to the works being undertaken.
Unable to actThe respondent said that a constraint prevented them from taking the relevant action.
West Yorkshire (Western)
Concerns raised1
Inadequate safety glazing in doors positioned at the bottom of stairs
This report raised 1 other concern. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
No linked response statements
No respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Leicester City and South Leicestershire
Concerns raised1
Presence of safety-noncompliant glass in older rented housing stock
This report raised 2 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Linked response
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Respondent positions A position is what a respondent says about the concern when they do not describe a specific action.1
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Government has no plans to require existing doors to meet current Building Regulations, given their non-retrospective application and major implications for existing buildings.
No action considered necessaryThe respondent said that no further action was needed.
South Lincolnshire
Concerns raised2
Presence of non-safety glass doors in properties occupied by potentially physically unstable people
Lack of a system for replacing or making non-safety glass doors safe
No linked response statements
No respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.
Actions and positions describe what organisations say in published responses. Implementation is not independently verified.