GAS SAFE ENGINEER REGISTER
The Gas Safe register is the UK's official gas registration body.
It is a list of engineers legally allowed to install and work on gas appliances.
The Gas Safe register has been appointed by the Health and Safety Authority. And by law, every gas engineer needs to be on the Gas Safe Register.
An engineer needs to be trained and approved by Gas Safe before they can work with gas.
My Connected Home nationwide network of engineers are all on The Gas Safe register.
GAS SAFE REGISTER, WHAT DOES IT DO?
The Gas Safe Register exists to protect homeowners, tenants and a businesses from the dangers of incompetent gas work.
They do this by investigating reports of illegal or suspect gas work in order to pass the information to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE prosecutes businesses or individuals found to have carried out illegal gas work.
Gas Safe also run campaigns, such as the annual Gas Safety Week, to increase awareness about the risks of illegal gas work.
According to recent Gas Safe research, more than a million UK homes are put at risk every year by illegal gas fitters and unsafe work. In fact, the same research found that 1 in 5 gas appliances are so dangerous that they need to be disconnected immediately. This included 147,000 boilers, 75,000 gas fires, 32,000 gas meters and 645,000 examples of unsafe gas pipework. They also found that very few homeowners check that their engineer is Gas Safe registered.
At My Connected Home, we take gas safety very seriously. Every 24 hours we automatically check the qualifications of every engineer on our network against the official Gas Safe Register. This means you can rest assured any of our engineers we send to your property, are from Gas Safe registered engineers.
