Category: Gas Safe

The Paris climate change deal spells the beginning of the end for cooking and heating with gas, experts have claimed. Within 15 years, British families may have to start phasing out gas cookers, fires and boilers if the UK is to meet stringent new targets aimed at halting rises in global temperat…

Capita’s “Gas Safety Register” scheme replaces CORGI’s registration scheme from April 1, 2009, and installers will need to be registered on the scheme to operate legally. Installers can visit the scheme’s new website www.gassaferegister.co.uk launched a few days ago, and from January 19 CORGI reg…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today announced that it has selected Capita as its preferred bidder to run the new registration scheme for gas installers from 1 April 2009. This will replace the scheme currently operated by CORGI.

Wolseley the parts and fittings supplier who also own Parts Center is promoting further gas safety by refusing to sell to anyone attempting to buy a safety critical gas part that is not CORGI-registered. From 1st January all branches of Parts Center and Plumb Center, part of the Wolseley group, w…

The CORGI Trust and the Electrical Safety Council (ESC) are apparently in talks about a possible merger. The two organisations are amongst the most important and respected safety bodies in the gas and electricity sectors and a merger would create a powerful new voice spanning the two industries.

As announced by Voltimum 30/07/07 NAPIT has announced it will be entering the bid to take over the Gas Safety Registration Scheme from Corgi, the current national watchdog for gas safety. NAPIT already runs Competent Persons Schemes across the electrical, plumbing, heating and ventilation sectors…

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today announced a competition to run a new gas installer registration scheme aimed at beefing-up domestic gas safety standards. The new scheme is set to bring benefits to both gas consumers and gas installers across Great Britain. Health and Safety Minister, …

CORGI Group, the UK’s gas safety watchdog, is to install a Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system to help its field inspectors, track compliance and manage its membership. Working on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive, CORGI is hoping the solution will improve communications …

At a gas safety stakeholder forum on Monday 2 October, hosted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Lord Hunt of Kings Heath made it clear that complacency on gas related carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is not an option. Research commissioned from University College London by HSE to inform its…

CORGI is facing questions over the success of its Gas Work Notification (GWN) regime after the gas safety watchdog released official figures for the scheme’s first full year in existence.