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Gas Industry Union GMB reveals that People Are Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide From Domestic Gas Appliances Per Week
New Study By Gas Industry Union GMB Shows That 4 People Are Poisoned By Carbon Monoxide From Domestic Gas Appliances Per Week
GMB calls on Government to instruct Regulator to ensure that responsibility for dealing with carbon monoxide exposure is given to an identified body in the gas industry
GMB today published a new study which shows that gas explosions and carbon monoxide poisoning from gas appliances has remained steady at roughly 3 incidents per week in the UK in 2005/06. In these incidents, about 4 people per week are poisoned by carbon monoxide, of which in 2005 16 were fatal and 8 fatal in 2006. The full table for incidents of explosions and exposures are shown below.
Yet last week OFGEM the Gas Regulator, told GMB during the final round of consultation on the Gas Distribution Price Review,there will be no allowances made for the cost of dealing with carbon monoxide poisoning. The outcome of the review will be announced in December. GMB expect this to be near the final position.
· Imposing an 18% cut in operating costs
· 2.5% year on year productivity savings
Gary Smith, GMB National Secretary for the energy sector said, "Consumers need to be made aware that the Regulator is pursuing the goal of price reductions via competition at the expense of the safety of the public. We have now got to the stage that there is so much fragmentation that not a single body in the gas industry has the responsibility of dealing with the carbon monoxide poisoning. This danger costs the lives of children and adults in their homes every year.
Despite earlier tough talking, it is now clear that the Regulator is going to do nothing about making a specific part of the industry responsible for dealing with carbon monoxide from gas appliances. This together with the proposed cuts in operating budgets, which pays for the emergency service, means that the risk to consumer's lives is unnecessarily increasing.
Government must step in and instruct the Regulator to put public safety in this potentially very dangerous industry as the number one priority."
Sent: 19/11/2007
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