Recommendation ICL-6: LPG Safety Communications
From The ICL Inquiry Report: Explosion at Grovepark Mills, Maryhill, Glasgow, 11 May 2004, published 16 July 2009.
Recommendation
There should be prompt and effective communication between all interested parties of all technical developments in matters of LPG safety.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended prompt communication among all parties on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) safety. In August 2016, UKLPG and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reported that formal meetings to monitor pipework replacement continued three to four times a year and that regular monitoring would continue with a lighter touch, but communication of all technical developments to all interested parties is not mentioned in the sources (UKLPG and Health and Safety Executive, Aug 2016). Earlier, in March 2010, HM Government agreed that effective communication was vitally important to ensuring the continuing safety of small bulk installations (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 asks for cultural or behavioural change, which is difficult to verify from published sources alone. The record reflects policy commitments rather than measured outcomes.
Government response
The Government agrees with Lord Gill that effective communication is vitally important to ensuring the continuing safety of small bulk LPG installations.
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".
Delivery
Health and Safety Executive says in progress (4 August 2016)
On the back of the initial high level regulatory monitoring of the pipework replacement programme, meetings between the industry and the regulator has been continuing formally around 3-4 times per year. This monitors the continuing pipework replacement and additional actions the industry is taking. This is in addition to any ad hoc reactive regulatory liaison with the industry that occurs within any standard regulatory approach. Such regular regulatory monitoring will continue albeit with a lighter touch as risks in the industry diminish.
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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