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HSC/E to retain guardianship of the domestic gas safety.....
HSC/E to retain guardianship of the domestic gas safety regime
The HSC met this week to approve recommendations concerning the future shape of the domestic gas safety regime.
Ministers are to be informed of the HSC view that:
HSC/E should retain oversight of the domestic gas safety regime;
the gas installer registration scheme should be reformed to improve domestic gas safety and over time reduce direct demands on HSE staff;
a competition should be run for a 5-year franchise to run the new scheme, to include strengthened oversight, with HSE setting out new governance.
Although regarded as a safe industry with falling numbers of deaths, reported annual fatalities are around 30, mainly through CO poisoning, with recent research pointing to a significant level of undiagnosed CO poisoning.
