Competent Person Schemes and the NVQ3

[morph]

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET) recently made an important announcement regarding training standards. In order to raise the bar in maintaining safe practice for anyone working in the UK electrical industry, all Qualified Supervisors will - from July 2011 - need to hold higher qualifications. An industry wide agreement means that a Level 3 qualification, or equivalent, will become the minimum technical requirement for all new applications for the position of Qualified Supervisor

2360 is level 3

 

[Guest 004]

2391 is level 3, but NOT NVQ3!

 

[morph]

ok , so why have the NICEIC not iniformed me or anyone else, ?
if needed i will do it but i can see the membership dropping and with that revenue, so i dont see it happening, right now all you need is 2382 for god sake so i cant see it changing too dramaticaly too quickly

 

[Electricalserv]

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET) recently made an important announcement regarding training standards. In order to raise the bar in maintaining safe practice for anyone working in the UK electrical industry, all Qualified Supervisors will - from July 2011 - need to hold higher qualifications. An industry wide agreement means that a Level 3 qualification, or equivalent, will become the minimum technical requirement for all new applications for the position of Qualified Supervisor

2360 is level 3

This is what I inteperated it as aswell. It says a level 3 qualification in the opening paragraph or equivalent....

So what are these level 3 qualifications and what are the equivalents???

It does go on to say about the new NVQ3 is needed. But why not just say you must have the nvq3 instead of saying a level 3 or equivalent. They need to come out and sort this

 

[IQ Electrical]

ok , so why have the NICEIC not iniformed me or anyone else, ?
if needed i will do it but i can see the membership dropping and with that revenue, so i dont see it happening, right now all you need is 2382 for god sake so i cant see it changing too dramaticaly too quickly

Why will the membership drop when the requirement is NOT retrospective?

 

[morph]

Why will the membership drop when the requirement is NOT retrospective?

because people leave and people join, yet if they make it more difficult then fewer new people will join

 

[Guest 004]

Im out of this one, and I am going to sing a song, you spin me right round baby, right round.....whistles out of the door

 

[morph]

if the 2357 is needed for new people, and they have 2360 then would they need to do the whole course?
the 2357 is as i understand it is made from the 2360/2330 and am2 etc with site visits

 

[Penance]

I spoke to napit about this last week and they didn't seem to think it will happen on the date mentioned.

Also as far as they are concerned 236 is level 3 and if you hold 236 parts 1 & 2 you will not be required to do any more.

 

[sbrown2]

I had a link to this a few months back. I can't locate it at the moment. It was a PDF document via the ECS website and has now been removed. It stated that the domestic electrician would become a new ECS card grading and that NVQ level 3 qualifications would be required. I will attempt to dig out the link.

 

[sbrown2]

found it

http://www.electriciansforums.net/e...orum/32608-competent-person-schemes-nvq3.html

spoke to the JIB about this and they said they were in discussions about the grading.

 

[pushrod]

found it

http://www.electriciansforums.net/e...orum/32608-competent-person-schemes-nvq3.html

spoke to the JIB about this and they said they were in discussions about the grading.

Well found - a completely different perspective

 

[sbrown2]

found it again

http://www.ecscard.org.uk/pdfs/Domestic_Electrician_discipline_and_schedule.pdf

hopefully correct link now.

Cheers

 

[Electricalserv]

found it again

http://www.ecscard.org.uk/pdfs/Domestic_Electrician_discipline_and_schedule.pdf

hopefully correct link now.

Cheers

Thats just JIB though

 

[sbrown2]

If you read through the documentation the JIB will be aligning themselves with the relevant competent person schemes