Recommendation ICL-2: New LPG Safety Regime
From The ICL Inquiry Report: Explosion at Grovepark Mills, Maryhill, Glasgow, 11 May 2004, published 16 July 2009.
Recommendation
A new safety regime should be put in place governing the installation, maintenance, monitoring and replacement of all LPG systems.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended establishing a new safety regime covering all liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) systems. In August 2016, UKLPG and the Health and Safety Executive reported that a sample installation record template had been developed, estimating that around 60% of commercial customers claimed to have an installation record (UKLPG and Health and Safety Executive, Aug 2016). That update addressed installation, while maintenance, monitoring, and replacement were not mentioned in the source (UKLPG and Health and Safety Executive, Aug 2016). Previously, in March 2010, HM Government (Department for Work and Pensions) stated that existing legislation already allowed the Inquiry's objectives to be achieved through improved guidance, compliance, and enforcement (Department for Work and Pensions response, Mar 2010).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 1 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
About this summary
This recommendation applies across many organisations. The record reflects central policy activity; adoption in individual organisations may vary.
Government response
A key theme that emerged from stakeholders was the view that the existing legislative framework already allows for Lord Gill’s objectives to be achieved providing that it is supported by improved guidance, compliance and enforcement to make it work more effectively. The Government agrees with this view but recognises the need to ensure that dutyholders are aware of how their legal duties should be applied to the use of LPG and that they are compliant with them.
How this response relates to the recommendation
Site note: The Government's response to the ICL Inquiry report (Cm 7849), presented by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. The paper is dated March 2010; the day, 18 March 2010, is from her written statement of that day, which says the response "has been laid before Parliament and will be published later today".
Site note: Before responding the Government took advice from the Health and Safety Executive's Board. The Board's paper MISC/10/05 of 27 January 2010 advised that "improved guidance, compliance and enforcement would be the most effective approach to deliver the outcomes sought by Lord Gill". It is the regulator's advice before the response, not a record of delivery, so the site does not show it as an update.
Delivery
Health and Safety Executive says partially delivered (4 August 2016)
To this end a sample Installation Record template was developed and made available via UKLPG to its members12. Each member was able to adapt and brand appropriately, and one large company trialled the Record with a significant customer with multiple LPG locations to learn lessons for its current use. Current estimates indicate that around 60% of LPG commercial customers claim to have an installation record11 and this number is likely to rise as plant ages and is replaced.
From: Safety changes in the industrial and commercial use of LPG: 2009-2015
Site note: "Safety changes in the industrial and commercial use of LPG: 2009-2015", a joint report by UKLPG and the Health and Safety Executive closing the pipework replacement programme. The same report records that the 2015 deadline for replacing all buried metallic pipework was judged in 2011 "not justifiable in terms of additional costs and resource implications", and that resistant or difficult customers remained outstanding at the end. No recommendation is recorded as delivered on this site for that reason. UKLPG, the trade association for the LPG industry, and the Health and Safety Executive wrote it together; the site files it under the Health and Safety Executive, the body the recommendations are addressed to. The report prints no date: the site dates it 4 August 2016, the date its PDF was created, and its references were last accessed on 16 February 2016.
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Who has spoken
- Department for Work and Pensions
Response - Health and Safety Executive
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