Gas Safety Week is a yearly event that unites installers, businesses, and trade organisations from across the heating and hot water industry. Its goal is to keep homeowners and tenants safe from the dangers of unsafe gas appliances.
With most of the UK’s 28.5 million residential buildings heated by gas boilers, tens of millions of people are potentially at risk from unsafe appliances.
The gas industry by numbers in 2024:
- 29.9 million – residential buildings in the UK
- 74% – percentage of buildings that are currently heated by gas
- 4.5 million – number of people at risk of heating their homes using unsafe gas fires, a common culprit for carbon monoxide poisoning
- 440 – number of hospital admissions per year due to carbon monoxide poisoning (approximately 51% of these are due to accidental exposure)
- 150,729 – Gas Safe registered engineers in the UK
- 1.8 million – the average number of gas boilers sold per year
Spread the gas safety message
Gas engineers are the customer-facing arm of the heating sector and have a critical role in spreading the gas safety message.
By always showing your Gas Safe Register ID card and explaining what it means and why it’s essential, you can help protect consumers from rogue traders and unsafe gas work.
Ensure your customers have a carbon monoxide alarm fitted and know the signs of CO poisoning. Remind them to have their gas appliances regularly serviced and safety checked once a year.
Read ‘Ten simple steps to help keep you safe and warm in your home’ from Gas Safe Register.
Protect your customers – have a look at our Gas Safety Awareness Courses
Get trained up for a critical sector
The recent effects of the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy costs mean consumers are eager to heat their homes cost-effectively by installing newer, higher-efficiency boilers or maintaining existing systems to ensure they are working optimally.
There’s plenty of work out there for engineers with the right skills! Did you know you could be trained to work as a Gas Safe registered engineer in a matter of months? It could happen even sooner if you have transferable skills from a related trade, such as kitchen fitting or plumbing.
As renewable technologies become more prevalent, gas engineers are ideally placed to join the renewables revolution and upskill by learning to work with new and popular low-carbon heating solutions, such as heat pumps.
Check out our New entrants to Gas and Renewable Technologies courses for more information.
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