The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has begun a consultation exercise and is actively consulting key stakeholders following an application from The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) to set up a new gas safety registration body.
Until now, CORGI have been the sole successful applicant for the role of the gas safety registration body. This consultation looks at the effects of having two services existing for consumers and the domestic gas industry.
The HSE will be looking at matters such as whether the proposed approach by NAPIT would be able to meet the following aims:
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to register efficiently any business which comes within the scope of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 (The Regulations), and to promote the need for registration;
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to ensure that businesses entering or remaining on the register are able to demonstrate their competence to undertake safe gas work;
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to positively promote the use of registered businesses by the public, and thoroughly investigate all complaints alleging unsafe workmanship;
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to establish, maintain or improve standards for gas work that contribute to gas safety; and for monitoring the continuing competence of registered businesses and individual operatives.
The consultation document was published on 10 May 2006. Comments should be mailed to napit.consultation@hse.gsi.gov.uk by the close of the eight-week consultation period on 5 July 2006.
The consultation document and NAPIT’s application can be found on the HSE website here: HSE - Gas: Live issues
Further information on NAPIT can be found on their website here: NAPIT - National Association of Professional Inspectors&Testers
Further information on CORGI can be found on their website here: CORGI Gas
