New EAS effective 1st September 2020.

Excellent stuff!


I hope the 2 certification bodies will be enthusiastically applying this criteria when assessing enterprises and verify the QSs and individuals who carryout inspection and testing actually have the required qualifications and experience.


So no more 5 day wonders and persons without 2 years experience will be approved then?

As in "Swine fuelled and airborne" perhaps?

This Specification sets out the minimum requirements to be met by Enterprises in order to...

It sounds like there's no requirements on the people actually on site doing the work - provided a QS back at the office has collected the pretty bits of paper themselves.


   - Andy.

Appendix 1 has been expanded to include new categories of Electrotechnical work regarding periodic inspection and testing.


Andy B.

Reading this carefully, I would doubt that anyone would want to be a QS unless they were totally in charge of every aspect of the employed staff to carry out work. Presumably anyone producing an "office" certificate or report could be prosecuted for any deviation from the information provided, and realistically would have to do QA checks on everything, just as self protection. Having seen many "made up" certs and reports, I don't think the QS can last much longer, and each tradesman should have to have all the qualifications, after all why not? Then they will themselves be liable and that should give a significant increase in standards, at least as long as the qualifications are not watered down.

An applicant Qualified Supervisor will need to have at least 2 years’ evidence of responsibility for the technical standard of electrotechnical work and evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development.  

 An person applying to undertake Periodic Inspection and Testing will be required to have at least 2 years’ evidence of undertaking periodic inspection and testing, plus evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development. 


How does a person acquire two years evidence of undertaking periodic inspection if they cannot undertake periodic inspection and testing until after they have it?


In the future will all prospective inspectors have to work in a team of two for two years before they can work alone?


Andy Betteridge

Lipstick on a pig methinks.

The song remains the same.

I'm glad I am in the process of self-assessing for retirement at the end of next year. Looking at the the list of parasitic quangos published at the top of the document, there'll be a whole lot of indolent mouths to feed as a consequence of something like this being actioned.

The wiser ones among us will rapidly conclude that the job isn't worth a light any more if we have to comply with all of that bureaucratic nonsense.

Has anyone actually costed these new requirements?

" An person applying to undertake Periodic Inspection and Testing will be required to have at least 2 years’ evidence of undertaking periodic inspection and testing, plus evidence of ongoing Continuous Professional Development. "


My wife wants to know if doing one EICR each year for two consecutive years under supervision is sufficient evidence?


Andy Betteridge

All that I see being different to the 2015 version is an expansion of work categories and more detail on criteria to demonstrate competence during assessment.

One of the  biggest differences is Periodic Inspection having its own category.

So, there is one tick box exercise being replaced with another, except it has more boxes to tick in the 2020 version.

Given how easy it is presently to tick the box, I cannot see how the slight increase in these boxes will make any difference, unless the biggest certification body makes radical changes to the way they operate. Presently it is a slight of hand and a flash of a logo. Claiming you are "NICEIC Registered" as opposed to the more accurate, "Domestic Installer", is a powerful commercial tool that will not be given up lightly. That you are allowed to do this by this body, when previously, many years ago, the same body would strictly regulate the use of the Logo, tells you all you need to know about the value of bums on seats and having the biggest portion of the pie, is to the bottom line of Certsure.


For those not familiar with how it works, consider that the certification body assessing works purely for Part P, have no interest whatsoever in the other electrotechnical work done by the same enterprise, such as Commercial/ Industrial and Periodic Inspection, as these are "out of scope". However, these same enterprises are able to persuade Clients  that they are in able to do these works, by virtue of being "NICEIC Registered". This persuasion can be as subtle and limited as claiming "NICEIC registered" in an advert of web page or on the side of a van. I can not see that changing anytime soon as the rewards for Certsure are vast.


David made an observation on QS requirements. I am not sure there is anything more onerous than previously, so long as the QS is not also the PDH. The Duty Holder will be the one to carry the can for statutory neglect. In my experience, personal experience as well, the QS will be the proverbial lamb to the slaughter, as they have absolutely no control over compliance in the business, as the time involved is not economically viable to the employer.