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Originally Posted by bobajob  Just wanted to put in my two penneth worth.
If a person can pass the relevent exams and then get registered on a competent persons scheme, then he can carry out electrical work, and certify his own work. Isn't that right?
So really it dosn't matter if a person is "qualified" or not. If he has the correct certificates, can work safely and can get a well paid job working with electricity, then isn't that the final goal? Surely the NVQ is just another string to help in getting work, useful but not essential. When he has worked long enough to gain experience then he can work for himself if he wants to.
Too many people seem to want to complicate the whole process. |
and use the term 'Electrician' purely to define people who carry out electrical installations on commerical domestic or industrial infrastructure
there are some 43 categories of trades/tradesman out there who can call themselves 'electricians', and the majority of them do not install fixed wiring
the term 'electrician' is not a 'protected' term like 'Doctor', where you have to achieve a prescribed set of academic criteria
And just because people like the JIB proclaim that you are not an 'electrician' until you achieve X,Y and Z does not make it so, it just means that you cannot be a JIB Electrican until you achieve X,Y and Z