Gas Safety Register are coming on board!

[Dan]

Great news. Gas Safety Register are coming on board the forum for the next 12 months. At no cost to them. I literally want them to use the forum, that's all.

Keep this out of the public forums for now. I wouldn't want any comments upsetting the apple cart before we've even got the ball rolling.

I'm hoping that between us we help get their news out to Joe Public. And also stop people who are still bloody asking for CORGI cards etc!!

Well done lads for making the forum attractive enough for them to even consider us.

Keep up the good work.

Hopefully once we have the articles system running they can contribute to that. And fingers crossed they'll physically use the forum from time to time to answer questions and whatnot too.

 

[SimonJohns]

Excellent

But I thought they were here already as GassafePR?

 

[Kev the gas]

Great news Dan, will their posts be public or only on the GSR section ?

Kev.

 

[GQuigley67]

do you mean the people that write the magazine

 

[mcniven]

thats like the police being at aan after party

 

[Leo21]

Excuse my ignorance but why do we want gs on board?

 

[Dan]

GasSafePR is their external marketing team who wanted an account to check the forum out if I remember rightly. They've been pushing us to them for a couple of months I think.

They won't be posting too much, and if they have an area questions are submitted they'll be vetting questions before they go live. Some things just need to be done directly when it involves something as important as Gas and Gas Regs.

They will NOT have access to the GSR forum. That way you can still discuss what you want in there out of their eyes, and the eyes of the public.

Effectively they will have public access, so they'll see the same content they see now as unregistered readers. Just now we should be able to get some help from them with regards to their main campaign, to keep people safe. I guess.

 

[SimonJohns]

Will they be getting their own colour?

 

[GQuigley67]

do they have access to the arms ?

 

[Guest123]

Excuse my ignorance but why do we want gs on board?

It will give the forum a seal of approval from
the governing body that registers Gas Engineers and "hopefully" it will promote proper answers for the gas forum that are backed up by them. It might discourage some who come on asking questions about gas work as they want to do it themselves illegally. GSR will give the form credence.

Dan, for those of us that do lead work, can we not have the Lead Sheet Association on board too?

 

[Leo21]

As above will they have access to the arms. This a good place to have a crack and a whinge with like minded people who share a trade, not sure I'll want big brother looking over my shoulder.

 

[REDSAW]

better watch me p's n q's or i will get struck off as being a numpty!

sure there not just spying on the gas peeps?.

 

[Dannypipe]

Run for the hills!!!! LOL.

Think it's great that they're coming on board. If they wanted to look in the arms/ GS section it wouldnt be hard to acheive. If I can manage it, I'm sure anybody can!!

 

[Dave]

Excuse my ignorance but why do we want gs on board?

Because they are the governing body and be proud that they feel we are worthy of them wanting to be here..


And NO they will not have access to the arms

 

[Kev the gas]

To believe the GSR do not have access to the private sections on this forum in hindsight is probably naive.

Im sure they have special reg no's that even specialised highly trained " mods"cannot. OUT :Mr-T:

Thankfully I believe I never make a prat of myself on this forum asking stupid/dangerous questions.:wings:

 

[REDSAW]

do you think they will do any monitoring dave or just purely on a promotional scale?.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

Because they are the governing body and be proud that they feel we are worthy of them wanting to be here..


And NO they will not have access to the arms

a few months back in the GS mag they were saying to GSR,S that it would be worth joining a professional forum and ours was the name given,i think it can only do the forums good to have gas safe on board

 

[mcniven]

a few months back in the GS mag they were saying to GSR,S that it would be worth joining a professional forum and ours was the name given,i think it can only do the forums good to have gas safe on board

I think thats a right, but only to a certain point, I wouldnt want my boss hanging over or seeing everything I write. Not that im not confident about my work, but uu know what I mean!

 

[mcniven]

Watch this, well all end up with letters about an inspection date!!

 

[SimonJohns]

HMRC will be joining next!

 

[mcniven]

HMRC will be joining next!

haha classs

 

[Dan]

Will they be getting their own colour?

No, they've effectively be a sponsor.

do they have access to the arms ?

As above will they have access to the arms. This a good place to have a crack and a whinge with like minded people who share a trade, not sure I'll want big brother looking over my shoulder.

No, as I said, only access to the publicly-viewable forums, just like they have now (by way of reading being unregistered).

 

[Dan]

Run for the hills!!!! LOL.

Think it's great that they're coming on board. If they wanted to look in the arms/ GS section it wouldnt be hard to acheive. If I can manage it, I'm sure anybody can!!

They couldn't get into the arms or GS area of the forum without somebody handing out their logins. And if they have an interest in the forum, they probably have their own account too. We have systems in place that trip when people login multiple accounts, and it informs all moderators. So we can quickly find out who's dishing out their logins and / or who is using more than one account. We do find people doing this, and we remove them from the forum. Happens bi-monthly I'd say.

So it's not fool proof long-term and certainly isn't the way GS would go about gaining access to the forum members. I'm sure they're aware that they get spoken about in private forums as they do in the pub or via text message. They're not interested in that.

They'll only be running the campaigns they already run to create awareness of the scheme in general.

 

[Dan]

do you think they will do any monitoring dave or just purely on a promotional scale?.

You guys probably know more than me. I'd guess they run on a report basis mostly I'm sure enough people report tradesmen to them already?

If they do any monitoring, which I don't know if they do myself, they cannot do any more by being part of the forum.

They will only have the same access as they do now browsing as an unregistered reader, if they do that at all.

It was their PR guys that checked the forum out, hence the username GasSafePR or whatever it was/is.

I'm not sure they'd want to use it like that, if at all. They'll be having banners on the forum to promote the scheme, and will hopefully send articles over to us. And if we're lucky we'll have some form or representative on here to answer any unclear common questions (I can almost guarantee that they wouldn't want to generally get too involved as it is a subject that too many laws fall under and they'll want to make sure they feed most of the questions direct to them via whatever ways there already are).

 

[Dan]

a few months back in the GS mag they were saying to GSR,S that it would be worth joining a professional forum and ours was the name given,i think it can only do the forums good to have gas safe on board

I didn't know that! Is that true? Is that a mag that gets sent out to all GSR plumbers then?