Make sure that you are Gas Safe Registered!
A Gas Engineer has been caught out for breaching safety regulations yet again! Down in the south wet corner of the country, a dodgy gas engineer carried out dozens of jobs in people's homes without qualifications leaving them in immediate danger. Gas is a very serious subject when it comes to the health & safety of the public, there are many dangers that can occur from improper installation of Gas equipment, appliances and so on. After pleading guilty to 11 charges of breaching safety regulations, the man in questions will be sentenced at Truro Crown Court this week. The charges include servicing and installing boilers, fitting gas hobs and gas fires when he was not competent to do so and was not a member of the regulatory Gas Safety Register and not approved by the Health and Safety Executive and falsely claiming to customers to be a member of the Gas Safety Register.
Gas Training Courses At Able Skills.
Here at our training centre we have been providing Gas training/Gas courses for over 10+ years, we know the health & safety implications of the trade and we teach our students how to safely and properly conduct themselves when carryout their work. It is important to us that our students after completing training register with the Gas Safe Register if they plan to carry out any kind of gas related work out in the industry. Interested in taking up this trade? We have spaces available starting in April & June on our New Entrant Gas Training Package 2! This package of gas training is the ultimate starting place for somebody who is looking for a career in the trade and includes all of the training both theoretical and practical needed to become a great, safe and knowledgeable entrant. The course includes a 7-week training program, portfolio completion and an ACS assessment.
Why is becoming Gas Safe Registered so important?
Well, there are many dangers that can come into affect whilst working this trade, even something as a small leak can be fatal through CO poisoning, Carbon Monoxide is a deadly gas that is odourless and can be released into peoples homes silently. Avoiding this problem is simple, hire a registered Gas Engineer, or for further precaution purchase a Carbon Monoxide alarm/detector which will notify you via sound and light if it detects the deadly gas in your home.
The purpose of the Gas Safe Register is to make sure that everybody who is working the trade have gone through the necessary health & safety training so that the number of deaths, injury and problems surrounding gas installations is reduced. The Gas Safe Register does a great job of this, firstly by simply existing as an essential entry way into the trade means that people looking to become a Gas Engineer have passed criteria that sees them fit to carry out this type of work. They also raise awareness of the issues surrounding keeping people safe and finally they carry out their own investigations, via the public reporting cowboy engineers and or suspicious activity surrounding the trade in general.
How do I become Gas Safe Registered?
Before applying you must have the relevant qualifications, experience and evidence. Currently, they only accept a few qualifications including; National Vocational Qualification, Accredited Certification Scheme and Scottish Vocational Qualification. Here at Able Skills, we offer courses such as our Qualified Plumber Gas Training Package that includes core domestic gas safety. This ACS will need to be completed before you are eligible for Gas Safe registration and this is a requirement for all operatives involved in the installation, maintenance and servicing of domestic gas appliances and pipe-work installations. Also, every Gas Safe registered business renews their registration on an annual basis and updates their qualifications every 5 years, meaning you will need to refresh your memory on gas safety every 5-years!
Apply here: gassaferegister.co.uk
Want some more information?
If you would like some more information regarding any of the Gas courses that we provide here at Able Skills give us a call on 01322 280 202 or take a look through our website at the training programs that we offer. Alternatively if you would like to speak to a member of staff in person then feel free to come into our office between the hours of 8:30 - 16:30. For those of you that live a considerable distance from our training centre, please be aware that we have accommodation available exclusively to our students, just a short walk away from our centre for just £20 a night.
Find us at:
K5, Riverside Industrial Estate, Riverside Way, Dartford DA1 5BS
Able Skills Gas Training Courses are Bpec Accredited.