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Electrical Competency, what is it?

David Stone

I want to move to a slightly different branch of the EICR question, and this should cover the range of Electrical work. What makes an Electrician Competent? What makes an Inspector competent, whether for an EICR or EICs?

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    Does the current gas safe scheme significantly improve promote safety, or stifle novel approaches to managing heating and so forth ?

    I agree it regulates the wo/man on the doorstep with a bag of spanners, but does it just make him /her very good at one thing, and not so good at the bigger picture and thinking "outside the box" ? (heat pumps come to mind..)

    A great many ‘heating engineers’ are really slaves to following a few pre-pack recipes , rather than generally competent.

    I'm not sure we want electrics to go the same way, so 

    imagine 

    “I can’t do two way light switching, I've not got the paperwork for that ” -would be silly - right ?

    Mike.

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    Does the current gas safe scheme significantly improve promote safety, or stifle novel approaches to managing heating and so forth ?

    I agree it regulates the wo/man on the doorstep with a bag of spanners, but does it just make him /her very good at one thing, and not so good at the bigger picture and thinking "outside the box" ? (heat pumps come to mind..)

    A great many ‘heating engineers’ are really slaves to following a few pre-pack recipes , rather than generally competent.

    I'm not sure we want electrics to go the same way, so 

    imagine 

    “I can’t do two way light switching, I've not got the paperwork for that ” -would be silly - right ?

    Mike.

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