Gas Safe Register has been working with ITV on a storyline that will see Coronation Street's popular character Fiz Brown, played by Jennie McAlpine, face carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
Due to broadcast later on this year, the storyline will highlight to the soap's eight million viewers how illegal and unqualified gas work is dangerous and can lead to CO poisoning. Character Fiz Brown will collapse at home after Tyrone Dobbs, played by Alan Halsall, fixes her boiler despite not being registered to do so.
Gas Safe Register has been working with Coronation Street to ensure that the dangers of gas and, in particular the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning, are portrayed properly to the public.
News of the storyline and Gas Safe Register's involvement has already been revealed in newspapers, with
The Sunday People, the
Metro and
The Daily Mirror all featuring gas safety messages from the Register's chief executive Paul Johnston.
Mr Johnston said: 'As part of our role is to raise public awareness of gas safety, we have been working with Coronation Street and various other TV programmes and soaps to get gas safety messages out to as many people as possible. When we worked with BBC Eastenders last year, we received huge support from engineers and other industry members for portraying the real life dangers of illegal gas work, so it's great to work with another popular soap in bringing gas safety to the forefront of people's minds.'
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www.GasSafeRegister.co.uk
