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Always use a gas safe registered engineer

If you are having gas work done in your home or workplace you should only use a Gas Safe registered engineer

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Find a Gas Safe registered engineer

You should use a Gas Safe registered engineer to carry out gas work safely and legally in your home. Find a Gas Safe registered business in your area using the panel on the right of this page.

You can find a Gas Safe registered business on our database 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Check that your engineer is Gas Safe registered

All gas engineers should be registered with Gas Safe Register by law to work with gas. Always check a gas engineer is on the register before employing them to carry out work for you.  And when your engineer arrives on your doorstep, always ask to see their Gas Safe Register ID card before letting them in.

You can check a Gas Safe registered engineer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

What gas work needs to be done by a registered engineer?

All gas work carried out in your home and in certain commercial premises should be done by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Gas work includes:

  • installing, repairing or servicing a gas boiler
  • installing or repairing a gas fire, gas cooker or hob

Not all gas engineers are qualified to do all types of gas work. Check what type of work your gas engineer is qualified to do.

What about DIY?

Never DIY with gas. You will be putting yourself and your family in serious danger from carbon monoxide poisoning and gas explosions.

Find out why you shouldn’t DIY with gas.

Are you a Landlord?

If you are a landlord you have legal obligations when it comes to gas safety.
Landlords’ legal duties apply to a wide range of accommodation including:

  • residential premises provided for rent by local authorities, housing associations, private sector landlords, housing co-operatives, hostels
  • rooms let in bed-sit accommodation, private households, bed and breakfast accommodation and hotels
  • rented holiday accommodation such as chalets, cottages, flats, caravans and narrow boats on inland waterways

Make sure you read our gas safety advice for landlords.

Are you a tenant?

If you are renting a property it is important that you understand your Landlord’s gas safety responsibilities.

These apply whether you are in public or private rented accommodation, or if you rent a holiday property.

Make sure you know all you should with our gas safety advice for tenants.

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Gas Safe Registered Engineers

All gas engineers on the Gas Safe Register are legal and qualified to work on gas.

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Using a Gas Safe registered engineer is the only way to make sure your gas appliances are safe.

What is a Gas Safe registered engineer?

A Gas Safe registered engineer has been checked to make sure they are competent and qualified to work safely and legally with gas.

To find a gas engineer in your area you can use our find a Gas Safe registered business service online or call 0800 408 5500.

How do I know my gas engineer is qualified to do the work?

Gas engineers will often have a range of qualifications that allow them to carry out specific types of gas work. It’s important to check what work they are qualified to do before you use them. You can find this information using our check an engineer service and by looking on the back of their Gas Safe Register ID card.

Every gas engineer carries a Gas Safe Register ID card with their own unique licence number, showing the type of gas work they are qualified to do. Before any gas work is carried out, always make sure you ask to see their Gas Safe Register ID card.
ID card 2011
(Click the image to view the ID card in more detail)

Why do I need to make sure my gas engineer is on the Gas Safe Register?

It’s all about safety. If someone other than a Gas Safe registered engineer does the gas work in your home, you could be risking the safety of your family and your property. Badly fitted and poorly serviced gas appliances can cause gas leaks, fires, explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning.

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What is Gas Safe Register | Find out about Gas safe register

what is gas safe register?Do you want to know What is gas safe register? , please read the article below to know what is gas safe register:

Gas Safe Register is the official gas registration body for the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Guernsey, appointed by the relevant Health and Safety Authority for each area. By law all gas engineers must be on the Gas Safe Register.

Gas Safe Register replaced CORGI as the gas registration body in Great Britain and Isle of Man on 1 April 2009 and Northern Ireland and Guernsey on 1 April 2010.

What does Gas Safe Register do?

The main focus of the Register is on improving and maintaining gas safety to the highest standards. We make sure all 123,000 gas engineers on the Register are qualified to work with gas.

We work to protect the public from unsafe gas work through;

  • a dedicated national investigations team tracking down individuals working illegally
  • regular inspections of Gas Safe registered engineers
  • educating consumers and raising awareness of gas safety
  • investigating reports of unsafe gas work

Gas Safe Register is here to help keep you and your family safe.

Who runs Gas Safe Register?

Gas Safe Register is run by Capita Gas Registration and Ancillary Services Limited, a division of Capita Plc.

What is Gas Safe Register | Find out about Gas safe register

 

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What is the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure?

The 6th edition continues to improve industry gas safety standards in a number of key areas, in particular:

  • Reinforces key ventilation improvements in the 4th edition, in that from the 1st June 2008, all installations providing less than 90 per cent of the purpose provided ventilation requirement will be classified as “At Risk”.
  • Offers guidance on the risk factors engineers should consider if they encounter flues located in voids which cannot be visually inspected.
  • Introduces a wider range of information regarding unsafe situations identified on LPG installations
  • Includes advice on the actions required in line with BS7967 when using electronic portable combustion gas analysers to investigate reports of fumes.
  • Clarifies RIDDOR reporting guidance for major injury incidents and dangerous gas fittings.

HSE continues to support the gas industry in taking forward improvements to the procedure to help engineers respond effectively when unsafe gas installations are identified, thus helping to improve gas safety protection for consumers.

Due to the transition to the Gas Safe Register link to external website the 5th edition of the procedure did not come into effect, so the predecessor of the 6th edition is the 4th edition.  Further guidance on the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure is available from the Gas Safe Register, 200 Cedarwood, Crockford Lane, Basingstoke, RG24 8WD Tel – 0800 408 5577. link to external website

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Gas safety Engineers | Find Gas safety Engineer

Do you want to find gas safety engineers? call this number for gas safety engineer for your gas work.

If you want to join gas safe register, find full details of the requirements for Gas Safe registration along with details of the fees can be found on the Gas Safe Register website link to external website

Are there any exemptions from the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations?

gas-safety-engineerHSE has issued an exemption from regulation 26(9)(c) of the Gas Safety (Installations and Use) Regulations to allow gas engineers to use a different test method to check the safe operation of certain types of gas appliance that cannot fully meet the testing requirements set out in the Regulations.

Regulation 26(9)(c) requires a person working on a gas appliance to check that its operating pressure or heat input (or both) are correct and to notify any defects. However, in certain circumstances, it is not possible for the engineer to carry out either test.

Since the introduction of gas appliances that incorporate pre-mix burners and zero set regulators (air/gas ratio valves) it has not been possible to measure the operating pressure of this type of appliance, and the only way to satisfy the requirements of regulation 26(9)(c) has been to measure the gas rate.

There are some situations where this type of appliance is connected to an unmetered gas supply (such as bulk storage LPG installations or multi-occupancy dwellings which do not have separate meters for each apartment). In such cases it is not possible to measure the gas rate without interrupting the gas supply to put a test meter in line.

The exemption will allow engineers to test this type of appliance using a portable combustion gas analyser (flue gas analyser) as an alternative to the tests specified in the Regulations. The testing will be carried out in accordance with the relevant part of BS 7967 – Carbon monoxide in dwellings and the combustion performance of gas fired appliances.

The exemption came into force on 16 June 2008 and applies only to appliances that:

What is the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure?

Since April 1998, the gas industry has worked together to provide guidance to engineers on how to deal with a wide range of unsafe situations which they may identify during the course of their work on domestic and non-domestic gas installations. This advice has been published through the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations Procedure, the latest edition (6th edition) of which came into effect on 1st April 2009.

The 6th edition continues to improve industry gas safety standards in a number of key areas, in particular:

  • Reinforces key ventilation improvements in the 4th edition, in that from the 1st June 2008, all installations providing less than 90 per cent of the purpose provided ventilation requirement will be classified as “At Risk”.
  • Offers guidance on the risk factors engineers should consider if they encounter flues located in voids which cannot be visually inspected.
  • Introduces a wider range of information regarding unsafe situations identified on LPG installations
  • Includes advice on the actions required in line with BS7967 when using electronic portable combustion gas analysers to investigate reports of fumes.
  • Clarifies RIDDOR reporting guidance for major injury incidents and dangerous gas fittings.

HSE continues to support the gas industry in taking forward improvements to the procedure to help engineers respond effectively when unsafe gas installations are identified, thus helping to improve gas safety protection for consumers.

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