Gas Safety, step by step
Educational reference. Do not investigate; evacuate and call.
- Do not use anything electricalNo switches, no doorbells, no phones indoors. A spark is enough.
- No naked flamesDo not light anything, and put out any cigarette outside.
- Open doors and windowsIf you can do so on your way out.
- Turn off at the meterThe emergency control valve, if you can reach it safely.
- Leave and call from outsideThe national gas emergency number.
Signs of a problem
- Smell of gas
- Lazy yellow flame instead of crisp blue
- Black marks around an appliance
- Excessive condensation in the room
Educational reference. Only a registered engineer may work on gas appliances. Annual servicing is a legal duty for landlords in many countries.
Questions about the Gas Safety poster
- What’s on the Gas Safety poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Educational reference. Do not investigate; evacuate and call. Do not use anything electrical — No switches, no doorbells, no phones indoors. A spar…; No naked flames — Do not light anything, and put out any cigarette outside.; Open doors and windows — If you can do so on your way out.; Turn off at the meter — The emergency control valve, if you can reach it safely.; Leave and call from outside — The national gas emergency number.. Educational reference. Only a registered engineer may work on gas appliances. Annual servicing is a legal duty for landlords in many countries.
- Who is the Gas Safety poster for?
- Gas Safety belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Gas Safety poster?
- Smell gas: no switches, no flames, open windows, leave, call from outside. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Gas Safety belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Gas Safety?
- Carbon Monoxide, Household Chemicals and Child Safety at Home sit alongside Gas Safety in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Carbon MonoxideHousehold ChemicalsChild Safety at Home
- Is the Gas Safety poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Gas Safety downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Gas Safety poster print at?
- Gas Safety is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Gas Safety loses nothing.Printing guide
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