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Should EICR (Electrical Instalation Condition Report) be stored nationally or locally in a digital format in a similar way to an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate)?

Sergio Fernandez

Should EICR (Electrical Instalation Condition Report) be stored nationally or locally in a digital format in a similar way to an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate)?

This would allow for people and companies to look up the information rather than it being hidden away.  Knowledable people could then have a chance to look at the results or at the previous results to make comparisons and have some historical imformation on the site.  Furthermore it would allow for the information to be checked at a later date should the requirement arise.  (Grenfell Tower inquiry is a casing point)  It has come to light that some of the EICR may not be wholly accurate. 

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  • I found out today by accident that if I go to the right place on line I can enter my vans registration, it will then show me when it last had an MOT and what the observations were. To my mind it's good to have some information open. Agreed it does raise concerns with privacy etc, maybe the exposed information should be circuit number, schedule item contravened and standard wording for that item. Plus details of organisation providing the report and report number.

  • in reply to Alan B

    I assume the Police use information from that same database when they do a PNC (Police National Computer) check

  • in reply to Alan B

    more amusingly, if I know your van registration, so can I ;-)  What I cannot do is see where you had it done to work out where you live. On a related website I can also see if the vehicle is taxed, but not who owns it.

    Police of course have rather more detailed access, such as owner, keeper, list of  insured drivers, all their adresses  etc, as they need that to do their job.

    i wonder if they also have a list of garages suspected of a surprisinly lenient appproach to MOTs and so forth ? They certainly exist and are known to those in the trade. A few of the more fantastically blatent even get caught out and prosecuted.

    " 47 falsely issued MOT certificates over a 3-month period. Rafferty had been issuing the certificates despite the vehicles never entering the two garages he worked at in Petersfield..."

    very similar to the drive by EICR problem.

    Mike.

  • in reply to mapj1

    The thing with mandating more and more stuff is that the original intention eventually suffers from mission creep, and then you begin to find all kinds of bells & whistles attached which give rights to even more non-relevant people access to private data. We have all witnessed news reports of paperwork and USB sticks being left in public places by public sector employees. Be careful what you wish for.

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  • in reply to mapj1

    The thing with mandating more and more stuff is that the original intention eventually suffers from mission creep, and then you begin to find all kinds of bells & whistles attached which give rights to even more non-relevant people access to private data. We have all witnessed news reports of paperwork and USB sticks being left in public places by public sector employees. Be careful what you wish for.

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