Tulloch PriestCo-founder, Gas Engineer Software · Co-founder of Gas Engineer Software

What Gas Safe Thinks of Duplicating Certs

14 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker explains that for gas safety inspections each appliance must be tested as if it were being inspected for the first time. Because a gas appliance can become unsafe at any point between inspections, Gas Safe (and most engineers) require a full test of every appliance at every inspection, rather than relying on previous certificates. The speaker emphasizes that the inspection sign‑off confirms the appliance is safe at that moment, not that a prior certificate remains valid.

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If you're testing an appliance, you're doing a gas safety inspection as if it's the first time you've done it. You've got to test every appliance because an appliance can change from year to year. It can become unsafe, you know, it can become unsafe at any point during, between the last inspection and the next inspection. So you've got to, from Gas Safe's point of view, and I think from most engineers' point of view as well, they'd all probably say the same thing as me, that you've got to test. If you're testing an appliance, you're doing a gas safety inspection as if it's the first time you've done it because you're basically signing it off to say it's safe, safe to News.