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I've been told at my new job that I need to conduct a minor cert if I replace Electric shower, light switch, and socket etc.
I always believed a cert was for addition to a circuit. It is my new job I have not debated this yet. It is just too much time consuming to do a cert just to replace a light switch. But my manager said it is a must. Is he right.
 
well its a minor alteration when you think about it, as you are not necessarily doing exact like for like replacement, it basically comes down to arse covering... if you were a one man band then its your choice but if employed you do what the gaffer asks...
 
I've been told at my new job that I need to conduct a minor cert if I replace Electric shower, light switch, and socket etc.
I always believed a cert was for addition to a circuit. It is my new job I have not debated this yet. It is just too much time consuming to do a cert just to replace a light switch. But my manager said it is a must. Is he right.

Did he/she say which parts of the cert have to be completed, test results etc.
 
Can’t your company just use photocopies of the model from given in bs7671 and stick the company logo on it and just fill it out for maintenance purposes so you have records if needed of any testing?
You could tweak it so that it states in works covered/limitations that any zs taken is from the changed accessory only.
 
Recording results is arse covering and may well get you out of the poop in the future.
 
right or wrong, he's your boss. a MWC is not mandatory for an accessory change, but it covers your arse .
So nobody will say, why are c
Can’t your company just use photocopies of the model from given in bs7671 and stick the company logo on it and just fill it out for maintenance purposes so you have records if needed of any testing?
You could tweak it so that it states in works covered/limitations that any zs taken is from the changed accessory only.
He wants nic cert minor, done online
 

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