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Scottish Govt to regulate "electrician" description

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Currently anyone can call themselves an electrician, without the need for any qualifications or competency.

The Scottish Government is gathering information and views on whether regulations should be introduced in relation to electricians. While the focus of the consultation is on domestic work carried out for individual consumers, it will also apply to commercial and industrial work.

https://consult.gov.scot/energy-and-climate-change-directorate/a-consultation-on-the-regulation-of-electricians/
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    It’s interesting to see how many people don’t know what the NICEIC is, a generation ago far more people would have been able to identify that is is an electrical scheme, even if they could not precisely define what it is.


    I argued for some years, at quite a high level, that the NICEIC and NAPIT should stop advertising in electrical trade magazines trying to attract electricians to enroll on their schemes. Instead the money should be spent on advertising to consumers to get brand recognition, which would then encourage electricians to join the schemes.


    Consumer recognition leads to more electricians joining the schemes, the advertising money could be spent more wisely.


    The NICEIC did have a short run of advertising on billboards a few years ago, there was one outside of a local railway station, but it didn’t last long.


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    It’s interesting to see how many people don’t know what the NICEIC is, a generation ago far more people would have been able to identify that is is an electrical scheme, even if they could not precisely define what it is.


    I argued for some years, at quite a high level, that the NICEIC and NAPIT should stop advertising in electrical trade magazines trying to attract electricians to enroll on their schemes. Instead the money should be spent on advertising to consumers to get brand recognition, which would then encourage electricians to join the schemes.


    Consumer recognition leads to more electricians joining the schemes, the advertising money could be spent more wisely.


    The NICEIC did have a short run of advertising on billboards a few years ago, there was one outside of a local railway station, but it didn’t last long.


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