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Gas Safe Register has replaced CORGI in Great Britain and the Isle of Man. The register
exists to protect you, your family, and your property from dangerous gas work.
By law, anyone carrying out work on gas installations and appliances in your home must
be on the Gas Safe Register. Be gas safe – always use a Gas Safe registered engineer.
Always ask to see their Gas Safe Register ID card.
Gas Care are Gas Safe registered Plumbers in London and the South East.
Call Gas Care now on 0845-2601290 for a fast response to your
domestic or commercial heating problems!!
Gas Safe Reg. No. 203063
To check an installer or for further information regarding Gas Safe
Register visit Gas Safe Register
New Gas Safe Register
In 2008, the HSE announced changes to the gas engineer registration scheme in Great Britain. The scheme previously
operated by CORGI was replaced on 1 April 2009 by the new Gas Safe Register™ (operated by Capita).
The Gas Safe Register is the only gas engineer registration scheme approved by HSE from 1 April under
the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. All gas engineers wishing to undertake domestic and certain other
gas work in Great Britain from 1 April will need, under those Regulations, to be registered with this scheme in
order to be able lawfully to carry out any work on gas fittings, which includes gas appliances.
Gas Safe Register will maintain an up-to-date register of gas engineers who are qualified to install or repair
gas fittings and appliances.It will have systems in place to check the competence of gas engineers, inspect their work and
to deal with complaints about unsafe gas work. The operation of the Gas Safe Register will be overseen by HSE as the
regulator with responsibility for gas safety. In the context of domestic gas safety this means that from 1 April, in order
to ensure that gas engineers are lawfully able to carry out the gas work, domestic users of gas should ask for a
Gas Safe Registered Engineer and not any other. The CORGI register will no longer count for those purposes.
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People who do not work directly on gas installations or appliances, but who work in areas where
there are implications for gas safety - such as architects, builders and local authorities working with flues and venting
- have a general duty of care under civil law. They should refer to the appropriate regulations covering their work.
The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 place specific duties on gas users, installers, suppliers and landlords.
For example:
- Anyone carrying out work on gas appliances or fittings as part of their
business must be competent and registered with Gas Safe.
- Only a competent person can carry out work on gas appliances or fittings.
Do-it-yourself work on gas appliances or fittings could be dangerous and is likely to be illegal.
- Do not use any gas appliance or fittings you know or suspect to be unsafe.
Through Gas Safe, the Health & Safety Executive has asked all registered installers to disconnect any gas appliance or
fittings that are so dangerous as to be a threat to life if they are used.
- Landlords are responsible for making sure that gas fittings and flues
are maintained in good order, and gas appliances that they own in their residential premises, and flues, are checked for safety
every 12 months. They must also keep a record of the safety checks for at least two years and issue it to existing tenants
and any new tenants before they move in.
- Tenants are responsible for the maintenance and safety of appliances
they own.
The regulations place a number of restrictions on gas appliances installed in bathrooms, shower rooms and bedrooms which
are detailed and prescriptive.
It is illegal to install instantaneous water heaters, which are not room sealed or fitted with a safety device that automatically
turns the gas supply off before dangerous levels of carbon monoxide (CO) builds up.
For more information and to check if your plumber is Gas
Safe registered, visit Gas Safe
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