Gas Safety

Annual Gas Safety Checks: CP12 Certificates Explained

What the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 require, who can carry out checks, and what your CP12 certificate must contain.

Carbon Monoxide Alarms: Requirements for Care Home Buildings

Since October 2022, CO alarms are legally required in rooms with fixed combustion appliances. What care home operators must have in place.

Gas Emergency Procedures: What Care Home Staff Must Know

How to respond to a gas escape, smell of gas, or CO alarm activation in a care setting. Procedures that must be in your gas safety management policy.

Boiler Servicing vs. Safety Checks: What Care Homes Need

The difference between an annual CP12 safety check and a boiler service -- and why care homes need both.

Appointing a Competent Person for Gas Safety

What qualifications to look for, how to verify Gas Safe registration, and what your appointment records should contain.

Gas safety in care homes: CP12 certificates, what they cover and what happens when they lapse

The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 require annual gas safety checks on all gas appliances in commercial premises, including care homes. The check must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer and the certificate (CP12) retained for at least two years.

Boiler service records in care homes: what the annual service report must contain and how it differs from the CP12

An annual gas safety check (CP12) and an annual boiler service are two separate requirements. The CP12 confirms that the appliance is safe to use. The service ensures the boiler is operating efficiently and that wear components are inspected and replaced as required.

Verifying Gas Safe registration before allowing contractors to work on care home gas appliances

The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 require that all gas work is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Care home operators who allow unregistered operatives to work on gas appliances face criminal liability, even where the instruction was given in good faith or the contractor claimed to hold registration.

Carbon monoxide detection in care homes: where detectors are required and how to maintain them

The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Amendment) Regulations 2022 extended CO detection requirements to all rooms in England containing a gas appliance (excluding gas cookers). Care homes must have a CO alarm in every room with a gas boiler, gas fire or gas heater, and must test alarms regularly and maintain a written log.

Flue and chimney inspections for care home gas boilers: what the annual service must include

A gas boiler service that does not include a flue gas analysis and a visual inspection of the full flue run is not a compliant service under Gas Safe guidance. Flue blockages, condensate traps and partial disconnections are among the most common causes of dangerous CO ingress in commercial buildings.

LPG in care homes: compliance requirements for bulk tank and cylinder installations

Care homes in rural areas or off-gas-grid locations commonly use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for heating and cooking. LPG installations are subject to the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and additionally to DSEAR 2002 for bulk tank installations.

Gas Safe and ACS: what qualifications your gas engineer must hold

All gas work in a care home must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer who also holds the specific ACS modules for the work being done.

CP12 gas safety certificates: what care home managers need to check before renewal

Annual gas safety inspections are a legal requirement under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. Here is what the certificate must contain and how to verify your engineer is Gas Safe registered.