Bonding to a lighting conductor

[RISElectrical]

Only when the LP system involves steeples, chimneys or other higher structures with no means of normal access. Normal building LP systems which make up the vast majority of the LP systems installed, are most certainly not installed by steeplejacks, ...they are installed by competent electricians!!

Slight misinterpretation, Steeplejack and LP are the same NVQ2, so able to 1 is able to do the other. Or it was last time I enquired. There is an NVQ3 being written as I type for a LPS NVQ however its a few years off. However most are not installed by competent electricians in my opinion. My experience are that the likes of Omega Red, Best, Baileys etc don't employ all that many electricians and certainly don't pay electricians rates. Most big companies are set up and operated by the old furse crowd from when they split and from all that I speak to non specifically employ electricians to do a majority of the work.

After all lightning protection is just mechano for adults on a large scale

 

[Engineer54]

Slight misinterpretation, Steeplejack and LP are the same NVQ2, so able to 1 is able to do the other. Or it was last time I enquired. There is an NVQ3 being written as I type for a LPS NVQ however its a few years off. However most are not installed by competent electricians in my opinion. My experience are that the likes of Omega Red, Best, Baileys etc don't employ all that many electricians and certainly don't pay electricians rates. Most big companies are set up and operated by the old furse crowd from when they split and from all that I speak to non specifically employ electricians to do a majority of the work.

After all lightning protection is just mechano for adults on a large scale

Lightning Protection systems aren't exactly rocket science to install, or test come to that (but the test equipment needed, can be expensive to both own or hire)

When i say installed by competent electricians, that doesn't exclude the use of improvers/trainees etc, that's been the norm for ever!! lol!! But competent electrician(s) will be the competent persons on site responsible for the installation work.

As for having a dedicated NVQ3 for lightning protection installation, if that's the case it won't be too long before you will be having NVQ's for just about everything. In my opinion this is just another de-skilling exercise and another means to make money off the backs of qualified electricians. It's never been needed before and still not needed today!!

Don't know what the standards are like these day's for LP installations in the UK. But i certainly wouldn't even consider using a specialist company of any description, to install the system, ...Design a system Yes, never to install!!