HSE gas-related press releases Here are the details of HSE's gas-related prosecutions from January to February 2015 Guilty: A Surrey trader fitted a boiler in Staffordshire while not registered - a number of faults were subsequently found resulting in the boiler being classified as immediately dangerous. Guilty: A Wiltshire fitter illegally carried out dangerous gas work at a number of properties in Swindon. Guilty: A London landlord illegally carried out gas work himself putting a family at risk. Guilty: A Devon gas fitter serviced a boiler illegally - it was subsequently found to be immediately dangerous. Guilty: A Staffordshire gas engineer failed to identify defects on a boiler which left a family with carbon monoxide poisoning. Guilty: Two Essex plumbers put lives at risk at a hotel in Sawbridgeworth. Guilty: Two Cornwall landlords put a family at risk by failing to have a gas boiler serviced and checked. Guilty: A national energy services company's failings led to the death of a pensioner when her gas boiler's flue was blocked by cavity wall insulation material. Guilty: A Greater Manchester loft-conversion company put a pregnant woman and her husband at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning when their work on a neighbouring property blocked a flue.
Interesting that these are not people that just flouted the regulations but actually caught after doing unsafe work.It seems all you get on average is a fine around £2500, probably about the profit they make on a couple of installations. So where is the deterrent to anyone carrying out work without qualifications?
Near enough to my thoughts tbh TB Where is the prisonable offenses, to those that literally put lives at risk ?? A Judge may call it manslaughter, when it kills someone, however I say it is premeditated murder, as they knowingly should never mess with Gas installations.
They were in one piece teabreak but flats had to run a cable under the floor and out came the Stanley knife, you know what an animal he is.
Looks like he followed a rule, as the cuts loot relatively straight from here unless I need also to go to specsavers
Reminds me of when I first got my tools, the Foreman was calling in on my jobs every day. Fair enough I guess but as a young lad I got a bit ****** off with it. I had a 3/8 steel supply to run to a fireplace so I lifted the carpet screwed the lengths of pipe together with elbows and a fire set on the end and laid the carpet back over it, his face was a picture when he came in and I told him the customer didn't want his floor boards taken up or damaged! Glad to say the visits tailed off then
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