Is a QS entitled to sign off an EICR?

In my view Alcomax that is not the proper role of the QS, and it does not fulfil the definition above. He is singularly and completely responsible for quality control of installations. I have yet to see that anywhere. He is often responsible for filling in the forms in the office (much neater!) from rough notes, meter data and other rather nebulous information. If it is incomplete he may well think of something (polite term). He will often sign for inspection results from someone who did or did not take part in the installation, without ever seeing it. No one of responsibility ever does that in my experience, it implies total trust in the installers etc. Hm. The real question is could I do this job, given the above requirements. The answer is no, unless I also had complete control of what was being done, and thus I would regularly be on site. Thus I could not reasonably do many small jobs at once, and would not meet the employers idea of my purpose. He could probably get BS9000 quality accreditation fairly easily, but this is of no concern so procedures would be unimportant, the only requirment being my signature. In principle I am accepting a huge responsibility for an uncontrolled operation, by selling my name. No that does not happen to me. But this is what is happening, we all see it, we must push back.

In my view Alcomax that is not the proper role of the QS, and it does not fulfil the definition above. He is singularly and completely responsible for quality control of installations. I have yet to see that anywhere. He is often responsible for filling in the forms in the office (much neater!) from rough notes, meter data and other rather nebulous information. If it is incomplete he may well think of something (polite term). He will often sign for inspection results from someone who did or did not take part in the installation, without ever seeing it. No one of responsibility ever does that in my experience, it implies total trust in the installers etc. Hm. The real question is could I do this job, given the above requirements. The answer is no, unless I also had complete control of what was being done, and thus I would regularly be on site. Thus I could not reasonably do many small jobs at once, and would not meet the employers idea of my purpose. He could probably get BS9000 quality accreditation fairly easily, but this is of no concern so procedures would be unimportant, the only requirment being my signature. In principle I am accepting a huge responsibility for an uncontrolled operation, by selling my name. No that does not happen to me. But this is what is happening, we all see it, we must push back.