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C&G Indicates lack of qualifications for Electricians and EV charger installs

GTB

Morning All,

Just was made aware of this article and doesnt really surprise me to be honest:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-11054445/Concerns-raised-safety-electric-car-charge-points.html

So goes back to the concerns I always have about what due diligence the "Duty Holder" or indeed the householder etc carry out to make sure the installer is competant for the task to be performed. I doubt this just relates to householders employing "electricians" direct themselves, but also to those charging companies and EVSE suppliers that send a man in a van out to do the install.

I appreaciate, those that do complete the C&G course can still go on and make mistakes and carry out dangerous and shoddy work, but logic indicates they should be less likley to do so than those with no training a flick thru Section 7 in the regs and carry on oblivious to what the results of their actions may be.

GTB

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  • That's pretty ironic, C&G moaning about qualifications, when their own Providers take short cuts during the Course, and everyone on the Course gets a pass, whether they have learnt the principals or not. 

    I reported last year on my C&G 2919,  no-one did the practical "as we are all electricians, and you know how to do it".

    The Design exercises were done as a group, not individually, as expected by C&G, so no-one could fail the design section. Lots of relevant questions were just skipped over by the Tutor, as "we've not got time to get into that". No,all he wanted was to make sure he was out of the door at 4pm, after a late start at 9.30am. Oh, it was meant to be a 2 day course, but, as were were all competent, we can do it in one day.

    I dont think I learnt anything on that day, the supposed book, advertised beforehand, to show us how to do the paperwork involved, turned out to be a .pdf file we could download, even that was rubbish, as all it was, was links to other websites for the OZEV/Government grants.

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  • That's pretty ironic, C&G moaning about qualifications, when their own Providers take short cuts during the Course, and everyone on the Course gets a pass, whether they have learnt the principals or not. 

    I reported last year on my C&G 2919,  no-one did the practical "as we are all electricians, and you know how to do it".

    The Design exercises were done as a group, not individually, as expected by C&G, so no-one could fail the design section. Lots of relevant questions were just skipped over by the Tutor, as "we've not got time to get into that". No,all he wanted was to make sure he was out of the door at 4pm, after a late start at 9.30am. Oh, it was meant to be a 2 day course, but, as were were all competent, we can do it in one day.

    I dont think I learnt anything on that day, the supposed book, advertised beforehand, to show us how to do the paperwork involved, turned out to be a .pdf file we could download, even that was rubbish, as all it was, was links to other websites for the OZEV/Government grants.

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