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Slightly hypothetical question regarding qualifications

Johno12345
I have been thinking - I know this can be dangerous!


I'm charged with maintenance in our factory, I think most people would now call it Facilities Management, Although I do have tools, I am office based but will turn my hand to the odd practical job here and there.


I also think I am reasonably knowledgable regarding the wiring regulations and I am competent enough to have electricians working for me that I can understand in reasonably good detail about what's going on, 


However, I don't have any qualifications, beyond a (ridiculous) basic electrical principles course I was sent on a few years back. GCSE physics was more thorough - I said it was a box-ticking course, so I could reset MCBs!


I would like to have the qualifications that I expect electricians to have, but still only for my desk-based job, so I can speak with more confidence about what I am expecting my electricians to do. I know most have done a four-year college course, which I can't do. 


I'm always a bit anxious about signing off isolations and supervising people testing for dead, accepting repairs and new work purely because someone has said 'aye, its alright'


I'm feeling slightly short of words to explain myself fully, but I hope you get the gist. 


Any thoughts?

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    I thought so Ebee! You will see the threads on EICRs for rented properties. There is an underlying problem which various are trying to sort out, that "anyone" can produce an EICR for a rented property which is of any quality from great to fraudulent to get work. This is completely unfair on everyone. Somehow a little leveling up is required, so that the safety is sufficient but the cowboys are excluded. One of the first steps has to be suitable levels of competence of all electricians, and that varies enormously between persons. Unfortunately the present systems where exams are dumbed down because too few pass is hopeless but rife throughout the education system. Take 2391, the last 2 changes have taken a 3 hour written exam with full essays for some questions, calculations etc. to a multiple choice thing where much less knowledge is needed (so I am told). When I took mine only 3 out of 16 passed, and in my view the teacher was pretty good. Many of the rest could not even understand Earthing systems, that TT, TN-S, TNC-S as being fundamentally different or describe them at all. That is totally useless, and several of them failed the practical section as well, despite being supposed electricians.
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    I thought so Ebee! You will see the threads on EICRs for rented properties. There is an underlying problem which various are trying to sort out, that "anyone" can produce an EICR for a rented property which is of any quality from great to fraudulent to get work. This is completely unfair on everyone. Somehow a little leveling up is required, so that the safety is sufficient but the cowboys are excluded. One of the first steps has to be suitable levels of competence of all electricians, and that varies enormously between persons. Unfortunately the present systems where exams are dumbed down because too few pass is hopeless but rife throughout the education system. Take 2391, the last 2 changes have taken a 3 hour written exam with full essays for some questions, calculations etc. to a multiple choice thing where much less knowledge is needed (so I am told). When I took mine only 3 out of 16 passed, and in my view the teacher was pretty good. Many of the rest could not even understand Earthing systems, that TT, TN-S, TNC-S as being fundamentally different or describe them at all. That is totally useless, and several of them failed the practical section as well, despite being supposed electricians.
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