Gas Safety RecordCPG18

Description

Fully compliant with the latest Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, the Atom Gas Safety Record (CPG18) consists of 25 certificate sets in A4 triplicate and is designed to record safety checks on gas appliances and flues during an inspection.

Guidance

Regulation 36 of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations, require landlords to carry out annual safety checks on gas appliances and flues and keep a record of the checks for 2 years. This record (often referred to as a certificate) can be either provided electronically or using hard copy form (certificate). Copies of such records are required to be provided to tenants within 28 days of the safety check having been carried out.

Under Regulation 36(c) the gas safety record has a number of specific requirements that are imposed to enable the landlord to comply with the legislation. The registered gas engineer must ensure that a record in respect of any appliance or flue so checked is made and retained until there have been two further checks of the appliance or flue under this paragraph or, in respect of an appliance or flue that is removed from the premises, for a period of 2 years from the date of the last check of that appliance or flue, which record shall include the following information:

The date on which the appliance or flue was checked.
The address of the premises at which the appliance or flue is installed.
The name and address of the landlord of the premises (or, where appropriate, his agent) at which the appliance or flue is installed.
A description of and the location of each appliance or flue checked.
Any safety defect identified.
Any remedial action taken.
Confirmation that the check undertaken complies with the requirements of regulation 9 (below).
The name and signature of the individual carrying out the check.
The registration number with which that individual, or his employer, is registered with a body approved by the Executive for the purposes of regulation 3(3) of these Regulations.

Regulation 9 states a safety check carried out pursuant to the above shall include, but shall not be limited to, an examination of the following matters:

The effectiveness of any flue.
The supply of combustion air.
Its operating pressure or heat input or, where necessary, both, unless it is not reasonably practicable to examine these, then its combustion performance.
Its operation so as to ensure its safe functioning.