A self-employed gas engineer from Bathgate and a Glasgow company have been fined more than £3,000 after the engineer and his son received serious burns following an explosion at a… Read Full Article
Gas Safe News
Technical Bulletin 059 – Potential gas escapes on stainless steel pliable or semi-rigid gas meter connections
Gas Safe Register has been made aware of a number of instances of work being undertaken around gas meters and where corrosive substances such as (but not limited to) flux… Read Full Article
RIDDOR: A gas engineer’s guide
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
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