�HSE notified bidders for the modern gas installer registration scheme that it is award the undertake to Capita Group Plc (CAPITA). The contract, which is valued at �14 million per annum, is awarded for a term of ten-spot years and will be signed on 8th September 2008.
The new system will strengthen and ameliorate the administration and performance management arrangements between HSE and the new scheme provider. CAPITA will have got incentives to continuously better gas guard and services to gas consumers and installers and be held to account through a challenging set of key performance indicators. CAPITA will be needed to innovate and boost a new independent blade which will provide an excellent opportunity to elevate gas safety messages.
The new gas installer registration scheme will run from the first of April 2009 and will supersede a strategy currently being operated by CORGI.
Notes
1. HSE is responsible for regulating domestic gas safety in GB and does this largely through the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.
2. At present, CORGI (Council of Registered Gas Installers) is approved by HSE to undertake this task. It maintains an up-to-date register of gas installers world Health Organization are restricted to instal or furbish up gas fittings and appliances.
3. The fresh scheme takes forward recommendations arising from the HSE's review of the domestic gas safety regime and the views expressed by stakeholders. Oversight of the new regime will remain with the HSE. Further details of these recommendations can be found here.
4. On eighteenth June 2008 HSE announced CAPITA as its preferred bidder in the competition to provide a new gas installer registration dodge in Great Britain. hypertext transfer protocol://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2008/e08031.htm
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