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Latest figures on fuel safety released by the Gas Safety Trust(12/04/2012)
The Gas Safety Trust, the UK‚s consumer fuel safety charity, has recently released the latest figures on carbon monoxide incidents for 2010/11. The report, which is the fifteenth in the series, analyses accidental carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning incidents in Great Britain associated with the use of mains natural gas and piped LPG in the home. And for the first time, this year, the report includes an assessment of domestic solid fuel and oil heatin... [more]
Gas Safety Trust highlights the safety of oil-fired heating and cooking systems(11/04/2012)
The Downstream Incident Data Report, which reviewed carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning incidents in Great Britain between 1st July 2010 and 30th June 2011, is the first to include comparative data from oil and solid fuel installations, as well as gas and piped LPG. During the period covered by the report, there were no reported fatalities caused by CO in homes using oil, and just three non-fatal incidents, the lowest of all the fuel types. Even al... [more]
Looking to the future: Gas Safety Trust sponsors the new LASER Alliance(22/02/2012)
The LASER Alliance, which currently has 215 registered members (individuals and organisations), welcomed around 50 delegates to its first meeting at the Bristol Lifeskills Centre on Wednesday, at which they announced a three-year sponsorship deal with the Gas Safety Trust. This new alliance is set up to help children and young people “learn about safety by experiencing risk”. Dr Mary Benwell, a trustee and past chair of the Gas Safety Trust... [more]
Williams & Co, Gas Safe Corporation and Main join forces to keep training on track(15/02/2012)
Customers of plumbing and heating merchant Williams & Co will benefit from the company’s new training facility adjoining its trade counter in Portsmouth. Williams & Co has set up CertifiTraining.com in partnership with local training business The Gas Safe Corporation to provide courses for gas engineers. Boiler manufacturer Main has donated the boilers and cylinders for delegates to work on, and will be able to use the centre to deliver free pr... [more]
Blocked chimneys and flues cause death and serious injury(22/11/2011)
Gas Safety Trust revealed a dramatic rise in the number of deaths resulting from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in the UK since 2010. The Gas Safety Trust, the prime source for data relating to gas safety in the UK, published the Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report 2011, which contains the reported figures of gas-related CO incidents gained from media report gathering throughout the UK. In the 12-month period between 1st July 2010 and 30th June ... [more]
Fitting CO alarms to become a statutory requirement in every 'at risk' home(21/09/2011)
In America there are around 450 deaths each year attributed to unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning and a further 15,000 related hospital emergency visits. A new report from the American Journal of Public Health suggests that around half of the CO alarms subjected to testing failed to function properly. A decision by the All Party Parliamentary Gas Safety Group and Greg Baker MP, Minister of State for Climate Change to make fitting CO ala... [more]
Older gas appliances pose a greater risk of CO incidents(06/09/2011)
The Gas Safety Trust's Carbon Monoxide Trends Report provides a factual account of the trends relating to reportable CO incidents linked to natural gas usage in Great Britain between 1996 and 2010. The recently released report reveals that older gas appliances pose a greater risk to CO incidents, with more than two thirds of CO incidents reported involved central heating appliances, of which 50% were older central heating boilers. However, the... [more]
Baxi offers free Gas Safe registration to installers(06/05/2011)
Working in partnership with the Gas Safe Register, Baxi has developed a new and free solution for installers to register the gas boilers they fit. Free Gas Safe registration is just one aspect of Baxi’s new loyalty scheme ‘works’, which has been designed to help installers cut down on the amount of administration and paperwork they need to do. When the boiler’s bar code is registered on the loyalty scheme website, it asks if the installer wan... [more]
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