Is your engineer a registered Gas Safe engineer?
The HSE are running a mini-campaign on knowing your gas safe engineer, the campaign is ‘Trust the Triangle.’ A list of possibilities why your gas engineer is cheap and why you need to check credentials:
- Unqualified – a person working with any gas installation has to be registered with Gas Safe.
- Fraudulent – he claims he is gas safe registered
- Cheap parts – the use of cheap or inadequate parts can render an appliance unsafe
- Sub contracted – the job may have been subbed out to someone not qualified
- No certificate – all gas work should be provided with a certificate of conformance/safety
So what can I do?
- Make sure your engineer is registered through Gas Safe, he should be able to provide a Gas Safe ID badge which will indicate the type of installation they are qualified to work on, on the reverse of his ID badge
- You can call the Gas Safe Register on 0800 408 5500 to check their credentials
- A professional should always know which parts are required for which installation and should provide suitable parts, if you’re a landlord get your local authority to check the works
- If you have spoken to your contractor who subsequently sends another person you are unfamiliar with or uncomfortable with, you should ask them to stop working and check their credentials as before
- Your engineer should provide a certificate to indicate that the installation has been re-commissioned and is in a safe state.
Watch the Youtube video on the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRa_KoNxDX0
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