SOVEREIGN Housing Association is supporting Gas Safety Week by reminding Islanders to have an annual gas supply check by a Gas Safe Registered engineer.
Nationally, one in six homes has an unsafe gas appliance.
A danger of not having your gas appliances checked regularly is they can leak carbon monoxide (CO).
CO prevents oxygen from being absorbed by the body and can cause death in minutes. Every year there are around 60 deaths from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in England and Wales.
By law, all landlords have to do annual safety checks. Sovereign arranges the annual safety checks for its residents and their compliance record relies on residents allowing access to gas engineers.
Jo Martin, head of compliance assurance at Sovereign, said: “It only takes about an hour to have a gas safety check and it helps keep you and your loved ones safe.
“The only time we won’t go into a home is if people are self-isolating, but we’ll then reschedule for 16 or so days later when they should be out of isolation.
“We keep our distance, clean surfaces before we leave and have PPE and sanitiser on our vans.”
Carbon monoxide is produced by all appliances that burn fossil fuels. Anyone with gas appliances in their home — such as boilers, gas fires and cookers — is at risk as even small leaks of CO can cause an effect on the body.
Find out more HERE about the effects of carbon monoxide (CO).
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