Ideal Heating wins RoSPA Gold award
Ideal Heating has received the RoSPA Gold Award, after entering for the first time this year
Builder receives a suspended prison sentence…
…for endangering a young family to deadly fumes from a gas boiler
Landlord given suspended prison sentence over gas failings…
...after it was found that the appliance was leaking deadly carbon monoxide.
OFTEC extends registrations during COVID-19 crisis
OFTEC has extended all current business and technician registrations for two months without charge, as part of the trade association’s support for its 9,000 registrants during the coronavirus pandemic.
Gas Safety Week 2024 drums up awareness
The Gas Safe Register’s annual Gas Safety Week, which takes place from 9 to 15 September 2024, has begun
Forty per cent of construction sites fail health and safety spot-checks
Inspection initiative finds nearly half of sites fail to protect workers.
Gas boiler left in dangerous state
Self-employed plumber breaches two gas safety regulations
WCoP to welcome Save the Children at upcoming annual lecture
The WCoP has announced the humanitarian director at Save the Children UK as a guest speaker at The Plumbers’ 39th Annual Lecture
Housing firm fined after carbon monoxide leaked around a house
North Devon Homes capped off a chimney at one of its occupied properties despite the chimney being in use.
Safe electrics: The hidden dangers
With the growing prevalence and importance of electrics in modern gas boilers, electrical safety has become a hot topic in the heating industry. Neil Macdonald, technical manager at the HHIC, looks further at considerations that need to be made.