Morning all
We are a large housing association and carry-out circa 14,000 EICR's per annum, C365 is our compliance tool/system for managing compliance and data storage. We are starting to become more system automated with our EICR programme and are now allowing unsatisfactory EICR’s to be issued, if a EICR is to be unsatisfactory we ask for the recommended next inspection date to be 90 days from the EICR date (unless dangerous items are discovered) this allows 90 days for the remedial works to be complete, the 90 days was a business decision based on time limits for consumer unit changes and customer expectations, C365 automatically reads the recommended next inspection date and triggers the system for 90 days, this allows us to monitor/report for unsatisfactory works and assists us with being compliant in process.
We then ask for either a MW or EIC to close out the remedial works, which is then uploaded to C365, closes out the actions and automatically triggers the next inspection date for 5 years or the time scale set out by engineer's judgement.
Query –
We have been challenged saying that the recommended next inspection date on the existing EICR will always read 90 days from when the initial EICR was carried out and even though the remedials are complete in a court of law the EICR document/report may become null and void, to add to this we state the full process in our electrical policy and procedures.
Does anyone manage this similar or what is your process with unsatisfactory EICR’s when dealing at scale?
