Heating installation firms are gearing up for Gas Safety Week, with Swale Heating the latest company to get behind the initiative by giving away free CO monitors.

The heating business, based in the south east, is working with Gas Safe Register (GSR) to ensure that members of the public are fully aware of the gas safety message that the scheme is trying to get across.

Matthew Edwards, Swale Heating’s Sales Director, said that one of the best ways of protecting the safety of its customers would be to give away the monitors.

Edwards commented: “Members of the public are not always gas safety aware, despite our best efforts. We know from Gas Safe Register’s own survey that many householders are very trusting and don’t always understand how important it is to use a registered engineer.

“Giving away CO monitors during Gas Safety Week is a way of encouraging householders to come to a professional, fully registered company and have equipment installed that could save a life.”

Gas Safety Week will run from September 19 to 25 this year and the firm is set to provide free CO monitors with any private boiler purchase during the week.

Swale Heating has also agreed several other events to mark Gas Safety Week, including a campaign on social media and a gas safety feature placed in local papers in the Kent area.

Gas Safety Week is a project that is run every year by the Gas Safe Register to raise awareness of gas safety and stresses the importance of taking care of gas appliances.

Landlords are legally required to have a gas safety check, while the focus is on homeowner to get this done too.

Poorly services and badly fitted gas appliances may lead to carbon monoxide poisoning, explosions, fires and gas leaks, with thousands of people in the UK diagnosed with CO poisoning every year.