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Chalkybones
Hi All,
As a sparks from the 90's I am competent and thorough in all the work I do, I have recently (last year) completed the full scope part p and sat the 17th edition refresher course, so I'm more up to date with current regulations.
My company (not electrically biased) have enrolled in the NIC EIC approved contractor scheme, I have been asked to be the qualified supervisor, the pre assessment is due at the end of September.
Reading the booklet that accompanies the application, it outlines the points that the assessor will need to cover, such as; 5 samples of work, test certificates, qualifications etc.
There are 2 of us in the company with the same type of experience (worked as sparks for years covering all aspects of work about 15-20 years ago)
As we have not been registered previously, we have not taken on any notifiable works, we have however been doing some minor works such as replacing fittings, test and make safe (TMS) which involves checking installations that have been subject to water ingress, or fire damage and have been filling out minor works certs for this work (as most TMS work only requires testing of individual affected circuits, testing for IR, Zs, RCD functions etc, we issue a minor works cert with the test results for that circuit, we then recommend any upgrades required such as RCD, Earth issues etc.
We have full test equipment to complete the full range of tests, and if any remedial work is required we instruct a registered electrician to cover the notifiable works.
My questions are;
My apologies for the long winded thread, it's certainly changed from "back in the day!!" for the better I will admit! but there are quite a bit of conflicting views out there.
I want to be compliant with all the regulations, but don't want to have to go through registration if not needed.
Chalky.
As a sparks from the 90's I am competent and thorough in all the work I do, I have recently (last year) completed the full scope part p and sat the 17th edition refresher course, so I'm more up to date with current regulations.
My company (not electrically biased) have enrolled in the NIC EIC approved contractor scheme, I have been asked to be the qualified supervisor, the pre assessment is due at the end of September.
Reading the booklet that accompanies the application, it outlines the points that the assessor will need to cover, such as; 5 samples of work, test certificates, qualifications etc.
There are 2 of us in the company with the same type of experience (worked as sparks for years covering all aspects of work about 15-20 years ago)
As we have not been registered previously, we have not taken on any notifiable works, we have however been doing some minor works such as replacing fittings, test and make safe (TMS) which involves checking installations that have been subject to water ingress, or fire damage and have been filling out minor works certs for this work (as most TMS work only requires testing of individual affected circuits, testing for IR, Zs, RCD functions etc, we issue a minor works cert with the test results for that circuit, we then recommend any upgrades required such as RCD, Earth issues etc.
We have full test equipment to complete the full range of tests, and if any remedial work is required we instruct a registered electrician to cover the notifiable works.
My questions are;
- Do we need to be registered to carry out the works I have described? predominantly the TMS works (as this is the majority of the work)
- I'm thinking this assessment is not worth going through with as we can't satisfy the requirements, as we have no installation work completed we have no work to show the assessor, we can show the test certs for the minor works, but no other certs either.
- Should we opt for a different type of enrolment to cover the work we do? (I will be contacting them to discuss, but would like some general opinions first)
- If we decide to go for the approved contractor, I would need to arrange some installation work, or board change works, and pay the council notification fee to allow us to do the work, is that correct? (our problem is most of our clients, will not use us if we are not registered with a governing body!! catch 22)
My apologies for the long winded thread, it's certainly changed from "back in the day!!" for the better I will admit! but there are quite a bit of conflicting views out there.
I want to be compliant with all the regulations, but don't want to have to go through registration if not needed.
Chalky.