A mobile app developer has predicted the end of paper gas safety certificates following a surge of enquiries from heating and plumbing companies across the UK.

Graham Whistance, founder of MyMobileWorkers - the facilities management app - has seen dozens of heating and plumbing companies looking to move away from traditional paper copies of gas safety certificates and turn instead to e-copies of the document.


“The gas safety certificate is an important document which contains vital information to show your gas boiler, gas cooker and gas fire are working safely,” he said.


“When engineers are carrying out these inspections, it’s vital that they are recording the information accurately and in a secure place or the consequences could be life threatening.”


The latest version of MyMobileWorkers has been developed by the team at software company Momote especially for heating engineers out on the road to record this information on a mobile phone app. The data is fed into a back office system and then a PDF of the certificate can be produced for the customer.


Whistance added: “We live in a world where paper is often not a reliable way of documenting an engineer’s job - information can be misread by administrators inputting the information or paper could go missing. App technology is really starting to get recognised by this industry and I foresee a huge demand for this in future.”


Designed for companies in the field services industry, MyMobileWorkers can be used by heating engineers to replace logbooks and job sheets, allowing employees to record each job in detail on site, using text and photographs, and even capture a customer’s signature.


The pay as you go service costs 25p per job, and the app is available to download through the android playstore. Companies can sign up for a free 7-day trial in order to try the system out and configure the app for their specific needs, and can now find out how much MyMobileWorkers might save their team of engineers by logging onto the newly launched money saving calculator