Building Regulations

Written submission from the Association of Registered Gas Installers

ARGI contains members from across the UK and across the broad spectrum of gas installation and servicing work in both the domestic and commercial environments.

1. Are the Building Regulations adequate in safeguarding health and safety in domestic dwellings?

Ans. The regulations are adequate in policing the qualified and competent tradesmen that do their utmost to comply. This puts them at a serious financial disadvantage to those that do not fall within this criteria.

It is our considered opinion that the issue to be addressed firstly is that of unqualified and illegal gas work. At the last gas safety review we submitted that a least 50% of all gas work carried out in the UK was what is considered to be illegal, to date nothing has come about to make us re-consider this opinion.

Association of Registered Gas Installers

January 2012