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SPOTLIGHT ON... oversee the gas registration scheme,
which they branded Gas Safe Register.
As a result of this, I started to become
ENGTECHS the gas industry.”
more aware of the HSE and its role in
In 2010, Ryan left British Gas and
registered as self-employed, offering the
skills he’d gained over the previous five
years, including central heating design
and installation, appliance service
and repair, pipework alterations and
landlord safety checks.
“On becoming self-employed, I
In our ongoing series of case studies, quickly had to learn about and, for
we’ve been speaking to some of our the first time, write risk assessments,
members about their career journeys, how method statements and produce control
IGEM has supported them so far, and what of substances hazardous to health
(COSHH) certificates for materials that I
their thoughts on the future of gas are. planned to use on site.
Ryan Mallin is a Compliance Specialist at “During this time, I was contracted
Cadent and has recently been successful to Whitbread, which owns Premier
in transferring his IGEM membership from EngTech to IEng Inn, where my scope of work was to
provide labour and materials at three
via the technical report option. Here, he tells IGEM Marketing Premier Inn sites across the north
Assistant Jodie Shepherd his story so far of England. The work was part of a
larger programme, and it was my
RYAN’S CAREER BEGAN after leaving company’s Leeds Training Facility. first experience of carrying out the
school in 2005, when he joined a local “Over two years at British Gas, I gained role of designer and contractor under
central heating and gas fitting company training and hands-on experience Construction Design Management
in Stoke-on-Trent and enrolled on a three- with a large variety of gas appliances Regulations 2007 (CDM).”
year apprenticeship, facilitated by Stoke- and became a competent Appliance In 2012, Ryan joined National Grid
on-Trent college. There, he studied on day Breakdown Engineer, working on open- as a First Call Operative (FCO), where
release while working towards an NVQ flued, fan flued and flueless appliances. he undertook six months of training to
Level 3 in Natural Gas Maintenance. I also became competent in wiring transition from downstream installer
In 2008, he joined British Gas and heating systems,” he says. to emergency service provider. Upon
embarked on a training programme “While at British Gas, the Health and completion of his training, he was
to become a Technical Engineer at the Safety Executive appointed Capita to qualified to work on medium pressure

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