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Date: 18 Feb 2009 16:23 Name: David Taggart Comment: Talk about confusion. As a Northern Ireland based installer at present we will still have to hold CORGI membership, as the HSENI ant the N.I. Assembly have not yet ratified a shift to Capita. This is expected to take place in 2010. However in the mean time once we renew our membership with CORGI, I have been told today by CORGI that to work in mainland U.K. we will need to hold membership of both schemes. I would assume this also applies to installers that will shortly be registering with Capita, having to register with CORGI should they need to nip over here to do a bit of work. Why should this be, no doubt down to the letter of the law. I fail to see how you can be deemed safe to work on gas appliances in one part of the U.K. and not the other, just because you don't belong to the right scheme. After all the last time I looked at my passport it said on the front "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" And I thought the changeover to the "Gas Safe Register" was going to be plain, simple and uncomplicated. I suppose that's what thought does for you. Perhaps someone from Capita's press agency will take the time to read this and respond with some clarity, either to deny or confirm what I have been told. In the mean time we will remain confused. ------ Date: 16 Feb 2009 18:43 Name: Mike Walton Comment: Corgi have done it again. Not content with creating confusion with their new scheme for RGIs they have now tried to register the Gas Safe trade mark. I wonder what possible motive they can have for doing this, other than trying to create chaos and confusion for Gas Safe Register. When will Corgi take the hint? They lost the register but like a bad smell they will not go away. ------ Date: 26 Jan 2009 17:49 Name: Mike Walton Comment: I was interested to read Corgi's comments in today's issue regarding the new Gas Safe Register brand. "The launch of the new gas registration brand should be welcomed by all in the industry....The brand needs to be adopted by the whole of the industry and not only installers so it is vitally important that as many people engage with it as possible". These are fine words indeed, so how do Corgi reconcile these words with their blatant attempts to confuse the public by trying to promote their own brand after April 1 with their latest money making scheme? Once again Corgi have shown their duplicity in claiming to do everything "in the name of gas safety" when in reality, their motives are all about making money. ------ Date: 15 Jan 2009 16:02 Name: Andy Carter Comment: Re: ventilation to school classrooms While it may be correct that high CO2 levels in classrooms cause children to doze off, I believe the culprit is more likely to be the high temperatures insisted on by staff. I regularly visit large numbers of schools and in many cases the temperatures are uncomfortably warm unless you are stripped almost to the bone! It seems many staff cannot work unless the temperatures are hovering somewhere above 25C and the effects on the kids of a warm muggy classroom and teacher droning on seem to be self evident. Whatever happened to to the campaign years ago for a maximum 19C? ------ Date: 14 Jan 2009 17:03 Name: Victor Andrusyschyn Comment: Sir/Mdm When will someone have the sense to tell and make Corgi change their business name after the 1 april 2009. I have sent emails to both HSE and All Party Parliamentary Gas Safety Group, content of which is as follows; Sir/Mdm I have just been notified of the "NEW" name for the Gas Register/Scheme, which totally infuriated me!!! The "CORGI" name is a specific abbreviation,originally owned/used by British Gas, who themselves were then a nationalised company; ie. owned by the country/people. Several image changes occurred over the years, but the acronym remained the same. The company using the CORGI name loses the right to operate the Gas Registration Scheme in April 2009, so must also lose the right to continue to use the acronym and have to create its own new business name/identity as otherwise there will be 1. The phenomenal cost in time, material and effort to notify everyone in the UK and abroad 2. The phenomenal cost to self employed,private and public companies to implement the new logos, etc The simplest option is for CORGI to change their name. It has taken over 17 years for the general public to recognise the CORGI logo and you expect to change that in 6 months? IT IS STILL NOT TOO LATE !!!!!. ------ Date: 14 Jan 2009 10:30 Name: Jon Keable Comment: Firms With A Death Wish ========================= In the current difficult trading conditions, H & V firms will go to the wall, many through no fault of their own, simply financial pressures, others because of sheer incompetence. As a consulting engineer I see examples of UK firms that sadly no longer even deserve to exist. A large domestic heating service firm is just the latest example. The customer has a contract for boiler & breakdown service, but the boiler has failed, the firm duly visited but the engineer could not fix it, and advised that he needs a part. A week later with no contact made to the customer, the customer phones to enquire only to find that the 'service' provider cannot locate the part so will not be returning to fix the boiler they are contracted to maintain. Amazingly they offer no further action or suggestion to the customer. These fools do not even see the point in advising their client that a new boiler is required and quoting for same... Total inability to provide a service, identify a sales opportunity or act in any coherent fashion. What a shambles some UK firms have become. ------ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 Back To Comment Back To Article