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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]
Aico raises Carbon Monoxide Alarms are vital in protecting most vulnerable(29/11/2011)
Gas Safety Trust published a trend report highlighting Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning incidents linked to piped natural gas usage in Great Britain between 1996 and 2010. Aico re-emphasis the need for quality mains powered CO alarms as the safest way to protect the most vulnerable. Whilst the latest Gas Safety Trust report showed a reduction in both fatalities and non-fatal injuries from CO poisoning during that time, the report identifies pe... [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]
More comprehensive testing of CO alarms is needed(14/10/2011)
According to the Gas Safety Trust’s Carbon Monoxide Hotspot Report 2011, deaths from CO poisoning in the UK have tripled in the last year. The report counts 50 recorded incidents involving 105 people including 25 fatalities and 80 cases of illness - over three times as many fatalities as reported in 2010. The report reveals that the public are still at risk in rented accommodation at home and abroad. It also suggests that medical professionals... [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]
Gas Safety Trust funds seminars designed to reduce carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK(21/04/2011)
The Gas Safety Trust has agreed to fund a series of free seminars delivered by CORGI Technical Services Limited. These will be aimed at a wide range of gas/fossil fuel associations and organisations, including housing professionals working with the elderly, the infirm, vulnerable people plus ethnic minority groups. The national programme of seminars is designed to reduce carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK, and will include a focus on the ad... [more]
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