When it comes to preparing for changing weather, the focus is often on extreme conditions. However, research has found that prolonged exposure to moderately cold temperatures actually kills more people than extreme heat or freezing spells. In fact, data collected in 384 locations shows that …
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Be CO Safe - Carbon Monoxide Awareness 'The Silent Killer'
Toxic to humans, carbon monoxide (or CO) is an extremely poisonous gas caused by unsafe gas appliances. Dubbed the ‘Silent Killer’ as it’s colourless, tasteless and odourless, it has claimed the lives of many thousands of people. In fact, it is estimated that around 50 people die each year from …
Be CO safe at work
Toxic to humans, carbon monoxide (or CO) is an extremely poisonous gas caused by unsafe gas appliances. Dubbed the ‘Silent Killer’ as it’s colourless, tasteless and odourless, it has claimed the lives of many thousands of people. In fact, it is estimated that around 50 people die each year from …
Gas fitter to carry out unpaid community work after explosion injures pensioner
A gas fitter has received a suspended prison sentence and curfew, and been ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid community work, after a pensioner suffered severe burns in a gas explosion at his home in Manchester.
Peter Smith, 66, was in a coma for three months following the blast, which happ…
Winter safety advice
Going out in the winter can be hazardous, especially if you will be driving. Then again, staying in has its risks too. Make sure you stay safe this winter with these helpful tips:
Driving in the winter is very different than at other times of the year. Adverse weather and longer periods of darkness…
The dangers of carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide has been called “a silent killer” by Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, stating that the deadly toxin “leads to 50 deaths every year”. At first glance this figure may seem relatively low when compared to other statistics (for example, from 2010 to 2011, 388 people …
Two companies prosecuted for gas mains fire in Leeds
Two major companies were responsible for a major blaze in Leeds that led to the evacuation of six homes, the closure of a major road and gas supplies being cut off, a court heard on 31 July 2013.
Leeds-based Northern Gas Networks Operations Ltd. and Morgan Sindall (Infrastructure) plc both neglec…
Gas fitter sentenced over Irlam explosion
A gas fitter has been sentenced following a major explosion in Irlam which injured ten adults and five children, and left a 73-year-old woman with severe burns.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Paul Kay after carrying out a large-scale investigation into the explosion on Merlin Ro…
Gas fitter's shoddy work threatened lives
A Brixham gas fitter has been fined after falsely claiming to be registered gas engineer and leaving work he carried out in a dangerous condition.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (on 2 November), Torbay Magistrates heard that Sean Collins carried out work on …
Essex plumber may face prison after shoddy gas work left family in danger
An Essex plumber has received a twelve-month suspended prison
sentence and 180 hours of unpaid community service after his firm fitted
a dangerous boiler in what was to be a child’s bedroom in a house in
Clacton-On-Sea.
A joint investigation by Gas Safe and the Health & Safety Executive (…
Landlord prosecuted for endangering lives
A landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence for endangering lives after a mother, her partner and her eight-year-old daughter were poisoned by carbon monoxide at a flat in Lewisham.
Gail Calvert, her partner Stephen Clayden and the young girl inhaled large quantities of the deadly ga…
Paisley joiner ordered to do community service after unsafe gas installation caused explosion
A self-employed joiner has been sentenced to 300 hours of community
service after a gas cooker he illegally installed exploded, severely
injuring two householders and causing more than £580,000 worth of damage
to four properties.
Alex Irvine was hired by John and Emily Reid to cut out a kitc…
Staffordshire man prosecuted for illegal gas work
A Staffordshire man has been prosecuted for pretending to be Gas Safe
registered, putting tenants at risk from dangerous gas work and for
breaching a legal Notice which prohibited him from carrying out gas
work.
Mark David Austin, of Riceyman Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme, who trades as APS, w…
Builder sentenced for unsafe work after death of couple
A self-employed builder has been fined £75,000 and ordered to undertake community service after work he carried out on an elderly couple's home resulted in their death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mohammed Jamil had been contracted to carry out work on the garage roof at the home of husba…
Gas fitter prosecuted for illegal inspections
A bogus gas fitter and the company he owns have been prosecuted for
carrying out illegal inspections on mobile catering units in Suffolk.
Antony George Hewitt, trading as Hewitt Plumbing Solutions Ltd., unlawfully issued gas safety records under the names of legitimate Gas Safe registere…
Illegal gas fitter's "incompetence exposed homeowner to serious risk"
A Barnsley plumber, who left a householder in danger after posing as a
qualified gas engineer and badly fitting a new boiler at their home,
has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Self-employed trader Mark Dixon of Royston, Barnsley, charged the homeowner £1,200 to carry out the work at t…
Local authority prosecuted for gas safety failings
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has been fined £83,600 for failing to arrange annual safety checks on gas appliances in tenanted accommodation.
The local authority is required by law to arrange annual checks by a Gas Safe registered engineer and keep and maintain gas safety reco…
Illegal gas fitter prosecuted for endangering lives
An illegal gas fitter has been prosecuted for endangering lives by
undertaking potentially lethal work at a property in Colchester.
Kevin Cook, 55, trading as Team Electric, installed a gas fire at a house in Rowhedge, Colchester, in August 2010, although he was not registered to undertake ga…
Wakefield landlord in court for flouting gas safety
A Wakefield landlord has been fined after ignoring repeated warnings to have gas appliances at his rented property checked for safety.
Mohammed Hanif was contacted by both Wakefield Council and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) instructing him to employ a registered gas engineer to undert…
TV ‘Rogue Trader’ in court again for botched gas work
A convicted plumber who left a series of householders at risk from
his illegal gas work was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court today for
putting more lives in danger.
Brian Lloyd from Ossett, near Wakefield, was exposed for carrying out illegal gas work by the TV programme ‘Rogue Traders’ back in…
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