The EICR and competence. What are we going to do about the endless problems brought to the forum?

So, Mr Pekham's suggestion of a minimum requirement of what should be tested is good but does this not become a box filling exercise and the opportunity to claim "I did not inspect that guv because it was not on the list? And anyway, does not BS 7671/GN 3 give us already a good list of what we might want to be inspecting. Also, Mr Steward's suggestion of (presumably costly) auditing is good too.  But who will do the auditing?  What if, for the sake of argument, Mr Benton, the auditor, disagrees with Mr Badadi's inspection. Who becomes the arbiter?  Going down a prescriptive route does, in my opinion, deskills the inspector by presupposing that reports are incompetently carried out by the uninstructed.  Whilst that may be the case sometimes it is, in my opinion, the wrong solution.  We need a better educated, more skilled workforce with the required levels of competency to carry out the inspections.

So, Mr Pekham's suggestion of a minimum requirement of what should be tested is good but does this not become a box filling exercise and the opportunity to claim "I did not inspect that guv because it was not on the list? And anyway, does not BS 7671/GN 3 give us already a good list of what we might want to be inspecting. Also, Mr Steward's suggestion of (presumably costly) auditing is good too.  But who will do the auditing?  What if, for the sake of argument, Mr Benton, the auditor, disagrees with Mr Badadi's inspection. Who becomes the arbiter?  Going down a prescriptive route does, in my opinion, deskills the inspector by presupposing that reports are incompetently carried out by the uninstructed.  Whilst that may be the case sometimes it is, in my opinion, the wrong solution.  We need a better educated, more skilled workforce with the required levels of competency to carry out the inspections.