Safety Management UK, which provides fire and carbon monoxide assessments for local authorities and housing associations across the country, has warned that tens of thousands of tenants - many of them families - as at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning and fire because PRS landlords are ignoring basic safety needs.
The company believes the creation of a national register would help local authorities and charities identify good and sub-standard housing and allow for the positive enforcement of basic standards.
In Scotland alone, one in 20 private renters claims to have suffered CO poisoning in their home over the last five years, according to recent research by Shelter Scotland and Scottish Gas.
SMUK managing director Brian Gregory said, "Sub-standard accommodation can not only be a fire risk, as Shelter's work in Scotland has revealed, the deadly menace of carbon monoxide poisoning is a real and growing danger.
"Families have a right to know that the property they are living in is safe. Landlords need to know that fire and carbon monoxide gas safety is not optional. Failing to act puts lives at risk."
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