Testing advice

[nicebutdim]

If you feel that someone is slandering you, there's not a great range of options.

You could challenge them in a letter or you could take legal action. Problem with slander is that someone needs to go on record confirming the allegations as otherwise it is heresay and easily denied.

**I'm not qualified to provide legal advice, so the above should be considered as musings and not advice.

 

[i=p/u]

Act like the cheetah of the massa Mara, weight the fight up

 

[DPG]

I have my 18th edition , 2391 , done 2394 and 2395 and have all test equipment . Landlord has sent it in email to myself and called all customers

That's good that he has emailed his thoughts. Keep that email.

Could you maybe post it on here but with any personal details obscured?

 

[nicebutdim]

That's good that he has emailed his thoughts. Keep that email.

Could you maybe post it on here but with any personal details obscured?

Missed the comment about an email.

Safe to say my musings can be ignored, if they weren't already

 

[Mike Johnson]

Officially written down somewhere will be the criteria needed to carry out testing, just copy it out and send it to the LL and anyone else that may be interested?

However BS7671, guidance note 3: page 12 section 1.2 does say :
it is worth noting that the person responsible for inspection and testing may be required to formally demonstrate competence by means of registration /certification under a recognised scheme or membership of a recognised trade body, or for example as a condition of contract and/or as a requirement of the Local Area Building Control.

If the landlord insists that you need to be registered that's the end of it I am afraid, even though they may be wrong technically, BS7671 is on their side.

 

[UNG]

Officially written down somewhere will be the criteria needed to carry out testing, just copy it out and send it to the LL and anyone else that may be interested?

However BS7671, guidance note 3: page 12 section 1.2 does say :
it is worth noting that the person responsible for inspection and testing may be required to formally demonstrate competence by means of registration /certification under a recognised scheme or membership of a recognised trade body, or for example as a condition of contract and/or as a requirement of the Local Area Building Control.

If the landlord insists that you need to be registered that's the end of it I am afraid, even though they may be wrong technically, BS7671 is on their side.

My understanding is the guidance notes form no part of BS7671 they are merely written as a guide to support the requirements of BS7671

 

[Lister1987]

Do you have the clients(s) details that he has contacted, if so it's a simple email stating the terms of any prior contracts, the absence of any clause to be CPS registered and provision of your qualifications.

Contact them directly, put your defence over and leave them to it. The clients that think the LL is a knob will stay and the ones that would rather trust a nonelectrician over a qualified one are just prime candidates for Darwin.

 

[Mike Johnson]

My understanding is the guidance notes form no part of BS7671 they are merely written as a guide to support the requirements of BS7671

Why stop there, BS7671 is not a statutory instrument so does not form part of the Regulations.

 

[Lister1987]

Why stop there, BS7671 is not even a statutory instrument so does not form part of the Regulations.

Turn it back on the LL, if you are as bad as they want others to believe them THEY have breached regulations 3 (duties), 4 (systems of work) and 16 (Competency) A polite reminder of thier obligations under EAWR as a shot across the bow

 

[UNG]

Why stop there, BS7671 is not even a statutory instrument so does not form part of the Regulations.

There you go yet AGAIN

 

[Lister1987]

Why stop there, BS7671 is non-statutory instrument unlike EAWR & HASAWA

Fixed that for you.

 

[Vortigern]

I would take a consultation with a suitably experienced solicitor. Ask the law society about which solicitors deal with libel cases. In the case of someone impugning professional standing there is no need to prove special damages. But most certainly I would be taking action in the form of a libel suit, seeking damages for lost contracts and loss of professional standing. Should have gone to NICEIC.

 

[i=p/u]

 

[joelee131]

The landlord do have a right to request their tenant to use any electrician that may or must belongs to so and so body, since they own the properties. Without reading the letting contract, you don't know if the landlord have what rights, from my own experience, it's only reasonable for the landlord to make such request. I don't know what you can do legal wise apart from may be slander, that is a very slippery slope. If you have a good client base, why don't join any goverment endorsed body? That will be a long term benefit.

 

[UNG]

If you have a good client base, why don't join any goverment endorsed body? That will be a long term benefit.

Could it be some people can't lower their standards to meet the requirements
When you look at some of the EICR's posted on here that have been conducted by people assessed as competent by these UKAS endorsed companies why would you want to join.
The NICEIC today is an embarrassment to what it was 25 - 30 years ago