The Gas Safe website has details of all of their registered engineers and their companies. To check whether an engineer you have already chosen is registered, simply log on to the Gas Safe Register website where you can use the Check An Engineer option to see whether your chosen engineer is on the system. The online information will let you know exactly what your engineer is qualified for, so that you can check whether it is safe to hire them to carry out specific work in your home. The Gas Safe ID card also shows these details.

Gas safety is highly important, as the risks posed by improperly fitted or repaired gas appliance can lead to gas leaks, carbon monoxide poisoning and even catastrophic explosions. Anyone fixing or installing gas appliances such as boilers, hobs, ovens or fires therefore has to be fully qualified, and the standard of their work vetted appropriately. And this is just what the Gas Safety Register does. For more information, log onto the Gas Safe website.

Until very recently, all gas plumbers and engineers in the UK had to be registered with the CORGI organisation. The government obviously felt that for one reason or another, this state of affairs could not be allowed to continue, and decided to abolish the whole set up to make way for a new organisation called the Gas Safe Register. The Gas Safe Register is not a government body, but a private company run by Capita Gas Registration and Ancillary Services Limited. They have been chosen by the British government's Health and Safety Executive to run the Gas Safe Register in the United Kingdom. This meant that a CORGI registration card became worthless overnight, and gas plumbers and engineers had to rush to register with the new body or face enforced unemployment.

In 2006 the British Health and Safety Executive carried out a review of UK gas safety, after which it was decided that a new form of gas registration and gas work monitoring was needed.

The role of this new body is to provide an easily accessible register of all the qualified and registered gas plumbers and engineers in the country, so that anyone who is not qualified or able to carry out work on potentially lethal gas appliances can be easily identified by the consumer.