It is becoming the norm for clients to demand a breakdown of the qualifications of personnel along with a management oversight strategy. Almost all public bodies in NI will have that built into the pre-tender process. Whether it gets policed or not when the works commence is another matter. 
The system is a wee bit better than the madness that hitherto prevailed. There is one hospital project in Belfast, where the electrical installation was mostly put together by farmers, taxi drivers and the like. Those were the days when the main electrical contractor could employ a labour only sub-contractor who could use who he liked to complete the job. Suddenly 200 “sparks” could magically descend on the job within a days notice when the pressure was on! 
When I was contracting, I had a great wee team. One guy was a firefighter who came in on his days off, another was a dairy farmer, both with absolutely superb pair of hands, but both were properly supervised and attended to the bulk of a sparks work that is relatively unskilled such as installing trunking, tray, swa etc. 
It seems now that the desire is to have all these tasks undertaken by NVQ L3 electricians with 2391 and up to date wiring regs qualifications. 
No need for that if the guys are properly supervised and trained up on the health and safety side of things.

It is becoming the norm for clients to demand a breakdown of the qualifications of personnel along with a management oversight strategy. Almost all public bodies in NI will have that built into the pre-tender process. Whether it gets policed or not when the works commence is another matter. 
The system is a wee bit better than the madness that hitherto prevailed. There is one hospital project in Belfast, where the electrical installation was mostly put together by farmers, taxi drivers and the like. Those were the days when the main electrical contractor could employ a labour only sub-contractor who could use who he liked to complete the job. Suddenly 200 “sparks” could magically descend on the job within a days notice when the pressure was on! 
When I was contracting, I had a great wee team. One guy was a firefighter who came in on his days off, another was a dairy farmer, both with absolutely superb pair of hands, but both were properly supervised and attended to the bulk of a sparks work that is relatively unskilled such as installing trunking, tray, swa etc. 
It seems now that the desire is to have all these tasks undertaken by NVQ L3 electricians with 2391 and up to date wiring regs qualifications. 
No need for that if the guys are properly supervised and trained up on the health and safety side of things.