Recommendation ICL-7: Legal Responsibility Awareness
From The ICL Inquiry Report: Explosion at Grovepark Mills, Maryhill, Glasgow, 11 May 2004, published 16 July 2009.
Recommendation
Awareness of legal responsibilities should be raised among LPG suppliers and consumers.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended raising legal responsibility awareness among liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers and consumers. In August 2016, UKLPG and the Health and Safety Executive reported that they had delivered a communication programme to advise pipework owners of their responsibilities, noting a survey found 43% of commercial users were aware of their legal obligations (UKLPG and Health and Safety Executive, Aug 2016). The joint report described work directed at consumers, while measures addressing suppliers were not mentioned (UKLPG and Health and Safety Executive, Aug 2016). HM Government (Department for Work and Pensions) had accepted the recommendation in March 2010, stating that the executive would prepare practical advice for users in consultation with UKLPG (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
We therefore accept Lord Gill’s recommendation, made especially in relation to DSEAR that HSE should, in consultation with UKLPG, prepare practical advice for LPG users regarding the fulfilment of their statutory duties.
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 partially delivered (4 August 2016)
A programme of communication with customers was instigated by the HSE and UKLPG with a regular sequence of letters to a common format and content issued by individual companies. The LPG industry team agreed the standard content, recommended the frequency of communication and worked with UKLPG member companies to ensure the communication programme was delivered. The letters were intended to raise awareness of the issue, encourage customers to respond to the questionnaire and advise pipework owners’ of their responsibility. A recent survey of commercial users indicated that 43% of users reported that they were aware of their legal responsibilities with respect to the LPG installation. This is a significant improvement on earlier awareness levels11.
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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