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Yes fuzzy is right.
Lets be honest, there is nothing stopping people working on gas in their own homes now. Would it not be better if they are proven competent on a short course to recognise that?
I feel sure many ex or unemployed gas fitters would welcome that.
It would not be a case of allowing them to work for money in the full open market place, just their own home and possibly in a relations home for no money, if found to be competent?
It cuts out risk doesn't it, while it does not threaten the livelihoods of others who want to work for money to any great extent?
The idea that all of a sudden thousands of ex-gas fitters willing to work for nothing taking all the work from those that do, would appear seems silly.
And anyway they could not do that as the licence would restrict them to work on only one or two houses as named and stated on the licence. I cannot imagine that being seen as a commercial threat to anybody. It would also perhaps help clear up a grey area.
You have to go careful about what salesmen say about being GSR to promote training courses and the extent it applies.
And I do not promote none GSR working and would recommend everybody be GSR registered if they can afford it. The thing is the costs are so prohibitive that a none working individual would struggle to get back the cost layout.
That is not fair to individuals with few resources, for what is supposedly an imposed safety requirement. Lets not forget ACS are not training they are safety inspections.
Any cost regarding safety should be easily recoverable by everybody possibly by tax breaks or grants.
The likes of BS should only cost a couple of quid for a standard not the high cost they are.
Lets be honest if I said to you "You have got to work safely, but I will charge you thousands of pounds to tell you how!" you would think I was more concerned with my wallet than safety wouldn't you?
We are supposed to be keeping people safe not making a small fortune out of safety.
Lets be honest, there is nothing stopping people working on gas in their own homes now. Would it not be better if they are proven competent on a short course to recognise that?
I feel sure many ex or unemployed gas fitters would welcome that.
It would not be a case of allowing them to work for money in the full open market place, just their own home and possibly in a relations home for no money, if found to be competent?
It cuts out risk doesn't it, while it does not threaten the livelihoods of others who want to work for money to any great extent?
The idea that all of a sudden thousands of ex-gas fitters willing to work for nothing taking all the work from those that do, would appear seems silly.
And anyway they could not do that as the licence would restrict them to work on only one or two houses as named and stated on the licence. I cannot imagine that being seen as a commercial threat to anybody. It would also perhaps help clear up a grey area.
You have to go careful about what salesmen say about being GSR to promote training courses and the extent it applies.
And I do not promote none GSR working and would recommend everybody be GSR registered if they can afford it. The thing is the costs are so prohibitive that a none working individual would struggle to get back the cost layout.
That is not fair to individuals with few resources, for what is supposedly an imposed safety requirement. Lets not forget ACS are not training they are safety inspections.
Any cost regarding safety should be easily recoverable by everybody possibly by tax breaks or grants.
The likes of BS should only cost a couple of quid for a standard not the high cost they are.
Lets be honest if I said to you "You have got to work safely, but I will charge you thousands of pounds to tell you how!" you would think I was more concerned with my wallet than safety wouldn't you?
We are supposed to be keeping people safe not making a small fortune out of safety.
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