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WHY CANNOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BE A QS.

It would appear that the IET EAS document now requires a QS to be an NVQ qualified electrician.

In the same way a building surveyor needs to be professionally qualified person who does not need to be a bricklayer but needs to know how bricks should be laid why cannot a professionally registered electrical engineer with an 18th Edition Qual. and C and G 2391 with maybe a Level 4 2396 design qualification be a QS?

The so called competent person schemes do not register electricians. They only register “enterprises” which have to have a single assessed person who is responsible for the technical standards in the company. It would appear a spotty faced youth with an NVQ 3 with minimal experience can be a QS but a Charted Engineer with decades of experience cannot be?

Before you ask I was the NICEIC PDH and  QS  for my own company for 15 years up until last year.

I would be interested in your views? 

 

 

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  • Long story, I ended up with a couple of stray ferrets and took them to the vets. A woman rushed in carrying a rabbit and the receptionist quietly said to me “we will let the rabbit go first it's dead, I can see that, but the vet needs to confirm it”.

    Sometimes you need the authority to state the obvious.

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