Is Gas safe just a front for expensive morons ?

[bernardgreen]

There is good & bad in every barrel.

Wasn't that the reason Corgi and now GasSafe come into being, to remove the bad from the barrels.

 

[denso13]

Wasn't that the reason Corgi and now GasSafe come into being, to remove the bad from the barrels.

To try to, yes. But things go wrong, even in the most regulated industries.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

To try to, yes. But things go wrong, even in the most regulated industries.

So what comes after Corgi, then Gas Safe to tighten things up - Gaszelle?

 

[denso13]

So what comes after Corgi, then Gas Safe to tighten things up - Gaszelle?

Nothing, for now. The HSE seem pretty content with the way things are. No industries are foolproof.

 

[opps]

It is odd but understandable from the public image of GasSafe as being an organisation that ensures totally safe and competent engineers ( technicians ) can be found,

Reality is that GasSafe registration means that the registered person has the knowledge ( been trained ) to be able to :-

(1) work safely on gas pipework
(2) diagnose faults directly related to the supply and combustion of gas in certain types of gas appliance.
(3) read and understand the manufacturer's basic installation, maintenance and fault finding for the appliances they are approved to work on.

The training / appraisal system does not ( based on my experience ) include anything more than very basic fault finding processes for the electrical and electronic modules found in modern boiler.

But the above almost reads as "well, even if they don't know how to fix your boiler- they won't blow your house up". Sorry, I am not trying to malign all gas safe engineers...

 

[bernardgreen]

almost reads as "well, even if they don't know how to fix your boiler- they won't blow your house up"

That about sums it up.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

But the above almost reads as "well, even if they don't know how to fix your boiler- they won't blow your house up". Sorry, I am not trying to malign all gas safe engineers...

I have always found, the more I learn about a subject, the less trust and faith I have in the so called experts you can employ to problem solve.