Appliance Safety
HETAS carbon monoxide awareness
With recent changes to Building Regulations Approved Document J requiring a carbon monoxide alarm to be fitted with all new or replacement appliances, HETAS have issued a new carbon monoxide advice sheet.
Solid Fuel Association Carbon Monoxide Safety
The Solid Fuel association have produced a safety leaflet giving advice about carbon monoxide.
Carbon Monoxide Be Alarmed
Carbon Monoxide is a highly poisonous gas that has no colour, taste or smell. It can be produced by any appliances burning gas, wood, oil or coal.
Poisoning by Carbon Monoxide can be fatal or cause lasting health damage.
This report explains the nature and scale of the dangers posed by this poisonous gas and sets out our mission to save many needless deaths and injuries.
Risks from redundant solid fuel back boilers
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) together with assistance from HETAS and SFA have issued safety guidance following several incidents in the last five years, three of which resulted in serious injury, and sadly in one case, a fatality. The redundant solid fuel back boiler had been left in a sealed condition and sometime later, when a coal or wood fire was lit in front of the boiler, the unit heated up sufficiently for the internal pressure to cause the boiler casing to explode.
