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30/01 21:33 - Health and Safety Executive
January 2008 HSE launches second stage of gas installer competition The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have launched the second stage of the competition to run a new gas installer registration...

03/01 15:46 - Plumbing Park
Parts Center, part of the Wolseley group, is saying no to cowboy HVAC installers by backing a gas safety initiative, developed in partnership with...

14/11 23:33 - Health and Safety Executive
November 2007 HSE reminds gas installers of need for vigilance after fire was left in dangerous condition A self-employed CORGI registered gas installer, Azam Siddiqi, has been fined 500 and ordered to pay a contribution towards costs of 2,500 after pleading guilty to installing a gas fire, but leaving it in.

06/09 00:16 - Government News Network
Students have a lot to think about when finding somewhere to live for the new term. But the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning them not to forget to check that their gas appliances have received their annual safety check - to prevent them suffering carbon monoxide poisoning.

04/09 17:25 - Government News Network
Health and Safety Executive (East Midlands) Philip Goodman (62), a self-employed plumbing and heating engineer, was fined 3,000 at Chesterfield Magistrates' Court yesterday (Monday 3 September) for working on gas appliances without being registered with the Council of Registered Gas Installers (CORGI).

31/07 11:31 - Builder & Engineer Online
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned anyone having gas appliances fitted or serviced to ensure the engineer they are using is competent and Corgi registered, after a man was jailed for four months for carrying out unauthorised gas work.

27/07 20:47 - Health and Safety Executive
July 2007 New gas installer registration scheme for Great Britain The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today announced a competition to run a new gas installer registration scheme aimed at beefing-up domestic gas safety standards.

15/07 09:36 - Hounslow Guardian
A Wandsworth landlord has been fined more than 4,000 for failing to maintain a boiler that forced 10 people in to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.

13/07 17:40 - Government News Network
Health and Safety Executive (London) The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned landlords to ensure gas appliances are safe for tenants. The warning comes after ten people in three flats were poisoned by carbon monoxide (CO), from a faulty boiler in a flat adjacent to theirs.

21/06 23:43 - IC North Wales
HEALTH and safety chiefs yesterday said landlord Steven Dickens potentially endangered tenants lives after failing to maintain gas fires at properties.