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Call on: 01202 377205 to arrange LPG Testing Dorset, a Gas Safety Test and Inspection
Catering Trailers must have 12 Monthly CP44 Gas Safety Inspections, leading to Certification if the Vehicle passes all safety LPG testing Dorset. Cemco are happy to undertake Catering Trailer Gas Safety checks in line with GSIUR regulations and advise on equipment and installations should they fall short of the recommendations.
Simply call 01202 377205 to arrange LPG Testing Dorset, a Gas Safety Test and Inspection
... or to simply seek advice on LPG Testing Dorset, your Catering Trailer and Gas Safety requirements. Our friendly, knowledgable team are more than happy to help!
For those that don’t know
...and that includes almost all of us
The gas equipment and installation in commercial kitchens comes under a piece of legislation called The Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations (GSIUR) for short.
These Gas Safety regulations have been in existence since 1998, but seem to have been missed when it comes to installations at outdoor events.
We now have the opinion of several leading industry bodies that catering equipment and installations used within trailers and marquees, tents stalls and pop ups come under the GUISR.
We have been aware of this for a long time with catering trailers and as you will have noticed, pretty much all event organisers and employers now demand a Gas Safe certificate before they will let you trade, so this came as no surprise.
The grey area has always been the caterers that use any of other types of structures, that we see around today at events and festivals in particular.
This has come to light this season, as many organisers are asking for gas certificates for all types of installations and gas engineers have not got any guidance documents to tell them what to check and how to check it. By mid season, we were even getting calls from fire officers and environmental health officers asking what the Gas Safety rules were.
As it happens, this coincided with a rewrite of UKLPG ( the trade Association for the LPG industry) Code of Practice 24 which is one of the documents, along with the NCASS Code of Practices, that sets out the requirements for the catering industry.
If like me, by now you are feeling confused. However, don’t feel bad! I thought that it was CORGI that looked after all this kind of stuff, and it was, that is until they changed last year to GAS Safe and now, no longer set standards, but simply maintain the register for GAS Safe engineers.
So where does this all leave us, the humble caterer trying to make a living?
The Facts
Catering Trailers / Vehicles LPG Testing Dorset
1) It is a legal requirement to have all mobile catering vehicles and trailers that have gas equipment installed, inspected by a Gas Safe registered engineer every 12 Months.
2) Unless made before 1996, all gas equipment must be of a proprietary manufacture and be CE marked, which means that it has been tested by an approved test house, and conforms to a European standard.
To have none CE equipment installed means that the Gas Safe Engineer should not issue a certificate. The fact is that some Gas Safe engineers are issuing certificates to trailers that have none CE marked equipment, for whatever reason.
This has now come to the attention of both Gas Safe and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) who are taking action against these engineers.
Even more worrying is that this could easily render the caterers insurance void, as most policies have a clause in them to say that the insured must be operating within the law to be covered under the policy
3) It is illegal to remove or replace any piece of gas equipment, the only exception to this is if the equipment has been fitted with ‘snap connector’ type hoses unless you are a Gas Safe registered engineer
4) It is illegal to service a piece of Gas equipment unless you are a Gas Safe registered engineer
A Gas Safe engineer has to have additional qualifications to work on LPG catering equipment so make sure that the engineer working in your business is suitably qualified.
If you are thinking of purchasing a used Catering Trailer in the Dorset, Somerset or Wiltshire area, or are curious about the LPG testing Dorset process, please Contact us for help and advice or download the following pdf files, they will give you a full run down of what is required BEFORE asking your local Gas Safe Registered Engineer to inspect for Certification purposes:
Commercial Catering Equipment Brands We Repair
Our fully qualified catering equipment technicians offer licensed repair of all appliance brands.
- Hobart
- Sammic
- Amana
- American Standard
- Asko
- Badger
- Bosch
- Winterhalter
- Ducane
- Electrolux
- Emerson
- Estate
- Fisher & Paykel
- Frigidaire
- Classeq
- Mach
- Haier
- Heartland
- hotpoint
- Inglis
- InSinkErator
- Jenn Air
- Meiko
- KitchenAid
- Lennox
- Magic Chef
- Marvel
- Maytag
- Miele
- Panasonic
- Nelson
- Roper
- Samsung
- Scotsman
- Siemens
- Sub Zero
- Tappan
- Thermador
- Blue Seal
- Uline
- Viking
- Armstrong
- Westinghouse
- Whirlpool
- York
