CORGI has attacked the National Association of Profesional Inspectors and Testers and the Healt and Safety Executive (HSE) over N.A.P.I.T’s bid to break CORGI’s gas safety monopoly.
On the 6 march N.A.P.I.T. formally applied to the HSE for a licence to operate a gas safety scheme with the company expecting an answer by August.
To assist in the N.A.P.I.T’S bid they have recruited the former C.E. of CORGI Bob Henry as a non-executive director.
Tim Ottridge,managing director of CORGI said it is highly likely that multiple schemes will result in the increase of deaths from carbon monoxide poisioning.
Mr ottridge also critisised NAPIT for making “an opportunistic bid to gain commercial advantage in the market place”,and was also supprised and disappointed that the HSE has decided to take this step while undertaking a wide-ranging review into gas safety.
Bruce allen,registration and development director for the NAPIT countered that he saw a second operator as an opertunity to increase the levels of gas safety and attacked CORGI’s claims that NAPIT is acting opportunistic as hypocrisy.
“There has never been a second gas scheme so it is impossible to draw that conclusion”.
CORGI itself has been under scrutiny for its own commercial business.
If CORGI is only interested in gas safety why does it use its own monopoly position to gain commercial advantage in other areas.
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