scam questions

[Infamous]

There is no specific requirement for you to be a member of an organisation such as the NICEIC or ECA etc for commercial electrical installation work. None. You have a duty however to follow the HASWA/EAWR and in doing so common sense and compliance with BS7671:2008(2011) is required in all aspects of the job. Competency can only be proven by suitable qualifications and experience.

Now a client may well request such trade body organisation membership for tendering commercial installation work. This is down to the illusion companies like the NICEIC/ECA etc like to create that in order to be a fully qualified electrician/registered you need to be a member. However in no way does membership with said organisations guarantee compliance on a job for the client, nor does it give any protection for a company which fails to comply with the above regulations and are a member. In short membership gives you no legal bolstering what so ever, if you burn a village down the ECA/NICEIC etc wont have your back in court.

Worse than that the NICEIC/ECA's etc definition of competency in a court of law might not even be enough to prove competency beyond doubt in the first place.

And as for Part P - from April domestic electrical work can be carried out by Bob the plasterer from the pub, non qualified, non registered and his third party mate the "competent person" can produce just a EICR rather than a EIC Endorsed by the government and said scam provider. Limitations anyone?:iamwithstupid:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_P_2013_DRAFT.pdf

 

[trev]

If they were free would you join one?
The JIB are owned by the ECA
“The JIB is jointly owned by ECA and Unite, the union. Its objectives are to provide a forum for debate and agreement on employment matters, as well as offering employers practical support in dealing professionally with employees and employment requirements.”

So where do we go from here who is to judge wheather we are compitant? (you seem to be getting humpy again hangover is it?)

JIB now owned(?) by ECA....
ECA now are in bad with NICEIC...
The world really has gone to hell in a handcart.
Dan, Shut this down we're all going off to be gas blokes.

 

[eagles]

So part p is getting worse. Who makes this sh!t up, this trade is doomed

 

[Engineer54]

If they were free would you join one?
The JIB are owned by the ECA
“The JIB is jointly owned by ECA and Unite, the union. Its objectives are to provide a forum for debate and agreement on employment matters, as well as offering employers practical support in dealing professionally with employees and employment requirements.”

So where do we go from here who is to judge wheather we are compitant? (you seem to be getting humpy again hangover is it?)

It's not me that's living in your hypothetical world, ...thank god!!!!

 

[Robert Turnbull]

So for commercial work it's just NIC and ECA non of the others?

 

[MDJ]

Dan, Shut this down we're all going off to be gas blokes.

Come on Trev, we can stick it out, there may only be a few of us left but chin up Pal Lets not talk about going down the Plummers route haha

 

[Guest111]

The way this diy advice forum is going maybe we'd better just gas ourselves!

 

[SAILOR48]

There is no specific requirement for you to be a member of an organisation such as the NICEIC or ECA etc for commercial electrical installation work. None. You have a duty however to follow the HASWA/EAWR and in doing so common sense and compliance with BS7671:2008(2011) is required in all aspects of the job. Competency can only be proven by suitable qualifications and experience.

Now a client may well request such trade body organisation membership for tendering commercial installation work. This is down to the illusion companies like the NICEIC/ECA etc like to create that in order to be a fully qualified electrician/registered you need to be a member. However in no way does membership with said organisations guarantee compliance on a job for the client, nor does it give any protection for a company which fails to comply with the above regulations and are a member. In short membership gives you no legal bolstering what so ever, if you burn a village down the ECA/NICEIC etc wont have your back in court.

Worse than that the NICEIC/ECA's etc definition of competency in a court of law might not even be enough to prove competency beyond doubt in the first place.

And as for Part P - from April domestic electrical work can be carried out by Bob the plasterer from the pub, non qualified, non registered and his third party mate the "competent person" can produce just a EICR rather than a EIC Endorsed by the government and said scam provider. Limitations anyone?:iamwithstupid:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_P_2013_DRAFT.pdf

Competency can only be proven by suitable qualifications and experience.



I think that if you had done something so bad that you were in the dock defending yourself for it, waving a hand full of C&G certificates at the court wouldn’t cut any ice, because, if you were competent you wouldn’t be there.
Same with the scam scheme membership.
But being a member would show that the specifier /customer had shown reasonable diligence in appointing a competent company how else could/ would they tell?

“Well no, the company had not been a member of any accredited body but, the chap had a lot of certificates and he told me he was experienced , I checked with one of his customers and they said he was ok and he was cheaper than the rest”

ECA own the JIB. The JIB issue the ECS cards The ECA was ELECSA and now they control the NICEIC Via Certsure.

“We will act as the sole registration, certification and assessment body for not only NICEIC’s current customer base, but for those under the ELECSA and ECA brands too. Emma Clancy, CEO of Certsure.
http://www.eca.co.uk/training-news-and-events/news/eca-press-releases/trade/2012/eca-and-esc-announce-major-partnership/
This not some hypothetical world that I live in it’s the real world,
I don’t agree with it but what you going to do?

 

[ipf]

The way this diy advice forum is going maybe we'd better just gas ourselves!

Maybe, but plenty more are gonna get zapped, methinks.

 

[Engineer54]

Well in the real world, None of the fast track 17day/Electrical Trainee's will ever manage to obtain an electricians JIB grade card without under going further extensive training etc. So for all it's faults, the JIB grading system is at least doing some good!! I can't see the joint operators, namely the electrical Union letting those standards slip anytime soon either.


Far too many ''what ifs'' and ''maybes'' within your arguments, so it's still all hypothetical, especially when you bring the law into the equation. The Law has always been an unpredictable ---, and will continue to be so....

 

[SAILOR48]

Well in the real world, None of the fast track 17day/Electrical Trainee's will ever manage to obtain an electricians JIB grade card without under going further extensive training etc. So for all it's faults, the JIB grading system is at least doing some good!! I can't see the joint operators, namely the electrical Union letting those standards slip anytime soon either.


Far too many ''what ifs'' and ''maybes'' within your arguments, so it's still all hypothetical, especially when you bring the law into the equation. The Law has always been an unpredictable ---, and will continue to be so....

I am sorry if you think that I am starting an argument, all I am trying to do is to answer best I can the OP question and trying to give him my unbiased opinion am not trying to say that one thing is better than another its up to him what he does.
I honestly believe if he wants to get on in the trade and create a profitable business, forget part P and scratching about in peoples lofts and get in to commercial and industrial work.
In order to get decent worthwhile works it is a big advantage to be in a scheme.

The IET who are reasonable for creating the BS 7671, recognise A qualifying supervisor in electrical installation (as defined by ECA, NICEIC); as criteria to become a member of the IET.
There is no such grading as electrician and their ECS cards
As for 17day/Electrical Trainee's if they worked for a JIB company, they could be sponsored for an ECS card.

 

[Engineer54]

I am sorry if you think that I am starting an argument, all I am trying to do is to answer best I can the OP question and trying to give him my unbiased opinion am not trying to say that one thing is better than another its up to him what he does.
I honestly believe if he wants to get on in the trade and create a profitable business, forget part P and scratching about in peoples lofts and get in to commercial and industrial work.
In order to get decent worthwhile works it is a big advantage to be in a scheme.

The IET who are reasonable for creating the BS 7671, recognise A qualifying supervisor in electrical installation (as defined by ECA, NICEIC); as criteria to become a member of the IET.
There is no such grading as electrician and their ECS cards
As for 17day/Electrical Trainee's if they worked for a JIB company, they could be sponsored for an ECS card.

Fortunately or unfortunately whatever way you want to look at it, I am biased!! This was once a proud professional industry that i considered a privilege to be a part of. Now it's been ransacked by leeches and reduced to an industry that's anything but professional!!

I know, they have been letting any Tom Dick and Harry in for quite a while now. If i was starting all over again, i would rather be Chartered through CIBS than this new IET. A far more professional Institute all round!! Too old and too late in the day to change now!! lol!!

As for the fast track boy's ...again, ONLY as at a grade of Labourer, Mate, Improver!!

 

[SAILOR48]

Fortunately or unfortunately whatever way you want to look at it, I am biased!! This was once a proud professional industry that i considered a privilege to be a part of. Now it's been ransacked by leeches and reduced to an industry that's anything but professional!!

I know, they have been letting any Tom Dick and Harry in for quite a while now. If i was starting all over again, i would rather be Chartered through CIBS than this new IET. A far more professional Institute all round!! Too old and too late in the day to change now!! lol!!

As for the fast track boy's ...again, ONLY as at a grade of Labourer, Mate, Improver!!

Oh mate you need to chill out, its not rocket science, look in a book, get a bit of experience, and you might just might earn £30,000 a year if you are lucky.
Think about it.

 

[MDJ]

Oh mate you need to chill out, its not rocket science, look in a book, get a bit of experience, and you might just might earn £30,000 a year if you are lucky.
Think about it.

He wouldn't get out of bed for 30k a year M8, do you ever read the threads here?

 

[Engineer54]

Oh mate you need to chill out, its not rocket science, look in a book, get a bit of experience, and you might just might earn £30,000 a year if you are lucky.
Think about it.

Say's the wanna-be electrician!!