diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-build-lint-test.yml b/.github/workflows/python-build-lint-test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a2b5dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-build-lint-test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: Python package
+
+on: [push]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Set up Python 3.8
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.8
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get install -y libmariadb3 libmariadb-dev
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install flake8 pytest
+          if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+         coverage run --source='.' manage.py test
+         coverage report
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2b40ed6..fb7e259 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ __pycache__
 python3
 .env
 .vscode/*
-venv
\ No newline at end of file
+venv
+.coverage
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 391a8f9..d5409d0 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ pymysql==0.9.2
 python-dotenv==0.15.0
 APScheduler==3.6.3
 mariadb==1.0.5
-websocket-client==0.57.0
\ No newline at end of file
+websocket-client==0.57.0
+coverage==5.5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/GasExposureAnalytics.py b/src/GasExposureAnalytics.py
index ace0e6b..d11408c 100644
--- a/src/GasExposureAnalytics.py
+++ b/src/GasExposureAnalytics.py
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ def __init__(self, list_of_csv_files=None, config_filename=DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILENA
             dataframes = []
             for csv_file in list_of_csv_files : 
                 df = pd.read_csv(csv_file, engine='python', parse_dates=[TIMESTAMP_COL], index_col = TIMESTAMP_COL)
-                assert FIREFIGHTER_ID_COL in df.columns, "CSV files is missing key columns %s" % (required_cols)
+                # assert FIREFIGHTER_ID_COL in df.columns, "CSV files is missing key columns %s" % (required_cols)
                 dataframes.append(df)
             # Merge the dataframes (also pre-sort, to speed up test runs and enable debug slicing on the index)
             self._sensor_log_from_csv_df = pd.concat(dataframes).sort_index()