New Year messages from the Boat Safety Scheme

Safety appeal regarding Gas Cookers

An urgent appeal has gone out to boaters who remain at risk from potentially fatal carbon monoxide poisoning, to act on a safety alert from the manufacturers of Belling, Flavel, Leisure, New World cookers.

Free modifications by the supplier’s engineers to the cookers are available to prevent the risk of CO if the grill is used accidentally with the door shut. Several boat owners have already had the modifications done and have said it is a quick and simple operation.

The Boat Safety Scheme is advising any boat owners with the following appliances to contact the freephone number on 0800 342 3049

Belling G755 MkII White
Belling G755 MkII Anthracite
Belling GT755 White
Belling Countrychef 100G Silver
Belling Countrychef 100G Anthracite

New World Vision 50TWLM Silver LPG
New World Vision 50TWLM White LPG
New World Vision 50WLM Silver LPG
New World Vision 50WLM White LPG

Leisure AL6NDW
Leisure CM10NRK
Leisure CM10NRC
Leisure CM101NRCP
Leisure CM101NRKP

Flavel DCGAP5LS
Flavel AP5LDWP
Flavel AP5LDW
Flavel AP5LDSP
Flavel Milano ML5NDS

Carbon monoxide alarms are recalled

The Boat Safety Scheme (BSS) is alerting anyone with a battery powered carbon monoxide alarm supplied by LLoytron (model B822) or PowerPlus (model BWK034C / Ref 6167) that some units are being recalled as recent tests have shown that some batches, may not detect, and hence alarm, in the presence of certain concentrations of carbon monoxide.

The advice is to remove the unit and return it to the place where you bought it for a refund or further advice.

Push the button in 2010!

Start the new decade with a positive action to fit a smoke alarm and test it routinely to avoid drowning, not in the cut, but in the toxic smoke of a boat fire says the Boat Safety Scheme.

According to the latest Fire Kills campaign, if you’re asleep when fire breaks out you could suffer a sensation similar to drowning, and in just two to three breaths of toxic smoke from a fire on your boat, you could be unconscious.

Last but not least

The next time your examiner issues a BSS Certificate you will notice that the hologram has now gone and in its place is the printed circle and BSS propeller. Your examiner will continue to emboss the certificate issue at this place on the certificate.

The move pre-empts greater emphasis on online licensing and registration by the navigation authorities whereby the combination of the certificate number and examiner PIN provides the assurance to the licensing or registration department about the issue of a certificate to the boat in question.

Boat owners should not be concerned by the lack of the hologram, but if they do have any doubts as to the validity of the certificate their boat has been given they can call the BSS office on 01923 210278 or email bss.enquiries@boatsafetyscheme.com