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15 May 2006 - HSE Consults on New Gas
Safety Registration Body
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has begun a consultation
exercise and is actively consulting key stakeholders following an application
from The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) to
set up a new gas safety registration body.
Until now, CORGI have been the sole successful applicant for the
role of the gas safety registration body. This consultation looks at
the effects of having two services existing for consumers and the domestic gas
industry.
The HSE will be looking at matters such as whether the proposed
approach by NAPIT would be able to meet the following aims:
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to register efficiently any business which comes within the
scope of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 (The
Regulations), and to promote the need for registration;
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to ensure that businesses entering or remaining on the register
are able to demonstrate their competence to undertake safe gas work;
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to positively promote the use of registered businesses by the
public, and thoroughly investigate all complaints alleging unsafe workmanship;
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to establish, maintain or improve standards for gas work that
contribute to gas safety; and for monitoring the continuing competence of
registered businesses and individual operatives.
The consultation document was published on 10 May 2006.
Comments should be mailed to
napit.consultation@hse.gsi.gov.uk by the close of the eight-week
consultation period on 5 July 2006.
The consultation document and NAPIT’s application can be found
on the HSE website here:
HSE - Gas: Live issues
Further information on NAPIT can be found on their website here:
NAPIT - National Association of Professional Inspectors&Testers
Further information on CORGI can be found on their website here:
CORGI Gas
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