Gas Safety Week highlights vital role of CO and smoke alarms
Arctic Hayes by DiversiTech UK is urging installers and heating engineers to use Gas Safety Week 2026 (14-20 September) to reinforce the importance of carbon monoxide and smoke detection in UK homes and businesses.
Positioning CO and smoke alarms as an essential part of every heating system installation, service visit and property handover will demonstrate to customers how they can be protected beyond the boiler installation itself. As part of a best practice approach, it also presents an opportunity to assess alarm coverage and recommend upgrades where required.
“Every installer and heating engineer has a role to play as they’re often the last professionals to inspect gas appliances and increasingly viewed by home and property owners as trusted advisors on overall home safety, not just heating systems,” explains Lee Parsons, Business Unit Director for Arctic Hayes by DiversiTech UK.
“Alarms should be viewed as essential, not optional, and just as customers expect safe boilers and heating systems, they should expect effective CO and smoke protection.”
Carbon monoxide remains an invisible threat that many home and property owners overlook, meaning every boiler installation could, and should, include CO detection.
Arctic Hayes also produces a personal carbon monoxide detector for trade professionals – a lightweight, belt-clip device with an alarm that activates when levels exceed 30ppm. To find out more about Arctic Hayes’ carbon monoxide, smoke and heat detection range, visit: arctic-hayes.com.
