Reporting certain dangerous gas incidents is a legal requirement. What must you report under RIDDOR – and what shouldn’t you report? What is RIDDOR? The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and… Read Full Article
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Not to Current Standards – a reminder from Gas Safe Register
What is it, what isn’t it, and should you record it? Gas Safe Register’s Technical Team provides clarification. Major changes to the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure (GIUSP) came into… Read Full Article
Builder who faked registration ordered to compensate customers
A builder has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay £1,900 compensation to his customers after failing to carry out work for which he had… Read Full Article
£16,000 fine for building company that removed kitchen’s boiler flue
A building company has been fined £16,000 after it removed a domestic boiler flue and left its products of combustion escaping into a new extension. Birmingham Magistrates’ Court heard that MD… Read Full Article
£280,000 fine for building services firm whose dangerous gas work caused fires
A Leicester building services firm has been fined £280,000 after it fitted more than 60 Immediately Dangerous gas hobs in a Warwickshire housing development, two of which caused a fire.… Read Full Article
Unregistered fitter jailed for dangerous gas work
An unregistered gas fitter from Staffordshire has been jailed for carrying out dangerous gas work at a domestic property. Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard how, in September 2016, Colin Christopher Batchelor… Read Full Article