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Training efforts to avoid CO fatalities
00:00 07 Oct 1998
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by Paul Donovan
A new safety qualification was introduced this week in an attempt to reduce the number of people being killed each year due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to the Construction Industry Training Board, the gas kills more than 50 people each year and a further 400 narrowly escape death.
To prevent these, the CITB in conjunction with the National Association of Chimney Sweeps and the National Association of Chimney Lining Engineers has introduced a National Vocational Qualification.
Carbon monoxide poisoning can occur from the burning of any fossil fuels if there is insufficient ventilation in a building.
President of CO-Gas Safety (the Carbon Monoxide & Gas Safety Society) Stephanie Trotter said: "Properly qualified chimney sweeps and lining engineers are crucial to preventing these terrible unnecessary deaths, and its a first step to our aim of having compulsory registration."
A new safety qualification was introduced this week in an attempt to reduce the number of people being killed each year due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to the Construction Industry Training Board, the gas kills more than 50 people each year and a further 400 narrowly escape death.
To prevent these, the CITB in conjunction with the National Association of Chimney Sweeps and the National Association of Chimney Lining Engineers has introduced a National Vocational Qualification.
Carbon monoxide poisoning can occur from the burning of any fossil fuels if there is insufficient ventilation in a building.
President of CO-Gas Safety (the Carbon Monoxide & Gas Safety Society) Stephanie Trotter said: "Properly qualified chimney sweeps and lining engineers are crucial to preventing these terrible unnecessary deaths, and its a first step to our aim of having compulsory registration."
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