NAPIT assessment for Electrical Inspector

[Michal Zapalski]

Hello fellow sparks
I have a question regarding NAPIT assessment I'm due to have soon. I'm getting Electrical Inspector Scheme and Third Party Certification. I'm not sure what to expect. Can you share me your experience and help me prepare to this important assessment. All answers are very welcome.
Thanks a lot

 

[timhoward]

Hello fellow sparks
I have a question regarding NAPIT assessment I'm due to have soon. I'm getting Electrical Inspector Scheme and Third Party Certification. I'm not sure what to expect. Can you share me your experience and help me prepare to this important assessment. All answers are very welcome.
Thanks a lot

Don't worry they are usually quite friendly and ultimately they want your money!

Be organised, have ready for them:
-public and professional liability insurance documents
-calibration certificate for your tester
-18th edition certificate, and any other certificates for training you have received
-I think they wanted to see that I had a regs book.
-you need a job to take them to (which can be a CU in your own house) and an EIC for it. They will ask you to do a couple of tests, (often a Zs@DB in my experience). I think it's a minimum of 2 new circuits or a CU change.

They will probably want you to watch a promo video for their Fast Test software. Just politely sit through it!

(On a different note, I honestly would consider dropping 3rd party certification next year and save yourself some money. I had it for my first year as they sold it well on the phone, but in reality its such a pain to use that I didn't once use it.)

All the best with it, and tell us how it goes!

 

[Dustydazzler]

Just have the kettle on , your admin in order and you cheque book open on the table...

The rest is very basic stuff any sparks should be able to demonstrate with their eyes closed

 

[Michal Zapalski]

Don't worry they are usually quite friendly and ultimately they want your money!

Be organised, have ready for them:
-public and professional liability insurance documents
-calibration certificate for your tester
-18th edition certificate, and any other certificates for training you have received
-I think they wanted to see that I had a regs book.
-you need a job to take them to (which can be a CU in your own house) and an EIC for it. They will ask you to do a couple of tests, (often a Zs@DB in my experience). I think it's a minimum of 2 new circuits or a CU change.

They will probably want you to watch a promo video for their Fast Test software. Just politely sit through it!

(On a different note, I honestly would consider dropping 3rd party certification next year and save yourself some money. I had it for my first year as they sold it well on the phone, but in reality its such a pain to use that I didn't once use it.)

All the best with it, and tell us how it goes!

Thank you Tim

 

[Michal Zapalski]

Just have the kettle on , your admin in order and you cheque book open on the table...

The rest is very basic stuff any sparks should be able to demonstrate with their eyes closed

Hehe I like your attitude.

Just have the kettle on , your admin in order and you cheque book open on the table...

The rest is very basic stuff any sparks should be able to demonstrate with their eyes closed

.As usual. Fear makes things look twice as bad as they are.

 

[Vortigern]

need a job to take them to

Recently that has changed, you need to supply three addresses for them to randomly choose a job to inspect. So you need three jobs now. If you are just joining I suppose you have produced all your qualifications. They may want to look at them again. They did with me. It has got a lot stricter now. I agree with the Third party, far too much of a pfaff so I don't do that but sometimes do it anyway without their approval. Depends who is doing the job and me being able to test and proscribe methods etc.

 

[Dustydazzler]

If you are brand new out the box qualified how will you have 3 finished notifiable jobs to show someone ?

 

[timhoward]

Recently that has changed, you need to supply three addresses for them to randomly choose a job to inspect.

Yes indeed. Though I have found the level of 'randomness' has been known to vary a little. There are ways to keep the auditing app on the ipad happy....!

 

[Vortigern]

I gave them a job down the road from the office/paperwork assessment. and two other jobs thirty miles away. Guess which they chose......?

 

[Vortigern]

Regards the assessment, if you know your stuff you will be absolutely fine. I was asked the calcs for ring circuit for instance. There are questions on regs, sometimes off the beaten path like swimming pools, or caravan parks. You are given time if it is something you rarely do to look at the regs and get the answer. You need to be able to reference the regs! Also building regs questions like how many bends can you have in ventilation and so on. There is tests like do a Ze, and they are watching for safe isolation procedure. They just want to see if you don't know the answer, you know how to access it and find out. They are not trying to trip you up they just want to see you are actually competent.