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?
You refer to your guys as "engineers" which on this forum should be taken as meaning to MIET level, though traditionally it may mean a spanner wielding clanky.
If you mean electrical engineer as in HNC or degree qualified may I suggest a course I did a fair few years ago City and Guilds 2396 Design, Erection and Verification. It is now a level 4 course, when I did it it was the C&G 2400 and level 3 having been elevated since then. If you have the NICEIC in mind as a scheme to join then I think this will better cover your requirements, however if your guys do the C&G Testing and Inspection first I think they will get credit for the testing and inspection part of the C&G 2396 anyway, that's the way it used to work.
The course covers design to completion of an electrical installation from a supervisory point of view, rather than how to tighten screws and the like.
You refer to your guys as "engineers" which on this forum should be taken as meaning to MIET level, though traditionally it may mean a spanner wielding clanky.
If you mean electrical engineer as in HNC or degree qualified may I suggest a course I did a fair few years ago City and Guilds 2396 Design, Erection and Verification. It is now a level 4 course, when I did it it was the C&G 2400 and level 3 having been elevated since then. If you have the NICEIC in mind as a scheme to join then I think this will better cover your requirements, however if your guys do the C&G Testing and Inspection first I think they will get credit for the testing and inspection part of the C&G 2396 anyway, that's the way it used to work.
The course covers design to completion of an electrical installation from a supervisory point of view, rather than how to tighten screws and the like.
