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Send your old ID card back to Gas Safe for recycling You can now send your expired ID card to Gas Safe Register to be recycled securely. The Register wants to thank everyone who suggested this –
it’s clear that reducing the environmental impact of domestic waste is important to you and your feedback has been invaluable. Gas Safe ID cards are made from tough polyvinyl chloride (PVC) so that they’re durable, but this poses recycling challenges. However, Gas Safe Register has been working with a recycling company to turn the cards into pellets, which will then be used to produce electrical energy. How to return your expired ID card Check your registration renewal
Are you a real-life Gas Safe hero? Throughout the year, Gas Safe Register is dedicated to creating eye-catching campaigns that spread awareness of the importance of gas safety. One of the best ways to really bring home to people why this so vital is to share real-life experiences. This is where you come in. Gas Safe wants to work with you to share your own experiences and stories; whether it’s dangerous or illegal gas work that you’ve come across and put right, or nearmisses that put your customers’ lives at risk and that you put right. The Register wants to shine a spotlight on your competence, skills and professionalism through real-life situations, and to illustrate the reasons why it’s so important that people should always use a Gas Safe registered engineer in their home. It’s just one way to help your business, your industry and your customer. Please do share your stories (you can remain anonymous if you prefer) and help to keep the UK Gas Safe. You can email us at: editorial@registeredgasengineer.co.uk
Virtual inspection events are being trialled The past year has challenged everyone’s way of working. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Gas Safe Register ran highly successful Inspection Events where registered engineers were given technical updates and then asked to undertake assessments. However, the restrictions that affect our lives mean that the Register has been unable to continue in this format. Gas Safe
has been reviewing how these important events could move online and is now looking at the detail of how to carry out virtual inspection events. The Register will be trialling virtual inspection events with gas engineer volunteers later this month and we’ll bring you all the latest information as we have it. Don’t forget to keep an eye on Gas Safe Register’s social media for more details too.
welcome letter. A freepost envelope has been included for you: just pop your card into the envelope, and return it to Gas Safe Register. If you’ve misplaced the envelope or you renewed your registration recently and didn’t receive one (a small number of invitations were issued before the initiative went live) please get in touch and Gas Safe will send an envelope to you.
You can email Gas Safe at: register@gassaferegister.co.uk or telephone 0800 408 5500. If you’re a large business with many expired cards, you can return the cards using any suitably sized envelope. Please post them to: FREEPOST RUCB–LSHZ–CSAE Gas Safe ID Card Recycling PO Box 599 Darlington DL1 9DN
If you have any suggestions for future improvements from Gas Safe Register, please do get in touch via email at: register@gassaferegister.co.uk
This magazine on your phone and tablet You can stay up to date with all the latest news and essential gas safety information from us in three different ways: in print, in app and online. We know that many of you enjoy spending time reading the print magazine at home or in your van. But when you need information fast, or you want to look something up quickly, you can find what you need on your phone and tablet when you use our free mobile app or search our website www.registeredgasengineer.co.uk
Using the free mobile app means you’ll have a digital store of up to 12 previous editions of the magazine on your phone and your tablet. Every issue is fully searchable so you can always find just what you’re looking for quickly. The app’s streaming news feed also carries the latest updates from Gas Safe Register and around the industry, essential technical information, and a jobs board. Just search for Registered Gas Engineer on your usual app store – and don’t forget to allow notifications so that we can let you know when the latest issue is ready to download and read. www.gassaferegister.co.uk 07
