As a business we sub contract out the electrical installation of our systems to outside companies. As part of the project deliverables, we ask these companies to test the electrical installation and produce the required documentation (certificate of electrical installation).
We check the companies to make sure they have the correct qualifications and personnel and they are accredited to the required standards and controlling organisations.
Our business has the correct insurance and complies with the correct standards etc.
My question is this, do we as a business have to be accreditied to the same governing body as the installation company e.g. NIC/EIC to be able to sign off/check there work or are we covered?
If you are designing the installation then handing over the installation and testing to a sub-contractor then you should already be signing the design box on the certificate, really the only way out of this is if the sub-contractor validates your design.
If you design the installation, but then subcontract out the installation before going back to sign it off after you inspect and test it then you should sign twice and the contractor once.
There are three things to sign off, design, installation and verification, the certificate can have three signature boxes, one for each or it can all be rolled up into one.
If you are designing the installation then handing over the installation and testing to a sub-contractor then you should already be signing the design box on the certificate, really the only way out of this is if the sub-contractor validates your design.
If you design the installation, but then subcontract out the installation before going back to sign it off after you inspect and test it then you should sign twice and the contractor once.
There are three things to sign off, design, installation and verification, the certificate can have three signature boxes, one for each or it can all be rolled up into one.
