Gas Safe Installers

Is water safety being overlooked? In the PHAM News article below, Kevin Wellman of CIPHE talks about how seriously water safety is taken, looking at the level of training required compared with the mandatory level of training necessary for gas installers.     Water safety can often be overlooked or taken for granted, but potential risks should not be underestimated...

HVP have published an article about Alisdair Cumming's move from the automotive industry to become research development manager at Baxi. The article explains how Alisdair believes drawing comparisons between boilers and cars can help installers encourage homeowners to commit to a regular maintenance programme. It's a familiar story, where installers warn of the need for regular servicing and maintenance, but...

Back in December 2016 we posted about the Gas Safety Superheroes and following on from this, we saw the article below in last month's HVP about Peter Booth (@pbplumber on Twitter) who came up with the hashtag #regardthecard for the Gas Safety Superheroes campaign. Gas Safety Superheroes Here is HVP's article on Peter: A Good Influence Peter Booth is a...

  Dont't Ignore The Electrics This article was spotted in the 'Your Views' section of HVP: "The Gas Safe Register Technical Bulletin (TB) 118 issued in July last year, quite rightly intimated that all engineers working on electrical appliances should be working under the Health & Safety at Work Regulations and more specifically the Electricity at Work Regulations. This TB would...

Be Safe - Always use Gas Safe Registered Engineers! HVP reported this month that an unregistered installer has been fined and given a suspended prison sentence after illegally carrying out work on a number of boilers. Faults were found on one such boiler following work carried out by Philip Locke in 2013, despite not being Gas Safe registered, High Wycombe...

Last month we told you about the new Gas Certification Scheme launched by Capita, the company behind the Gas Safe Register. However, this month it has  been reported in PHAM News that following widespread criticism from gas installers the scheme has been scrapped. The UKAS gas safety certification scheme from Capita Gas Compliance Services (CGCS) was trumpeted as giving businesses...