Hi folks. I'm not an electrician but I thought this would be a good place to get some guidance and get some understanding on health and safety when it comes to electric engineers.
I am from Northern Ireland. I just had a prepayment meter removed and a new meter installed for a direct debit tariff this morning.
NIE are the main guys here. I asked the engineer for a health and safety certificate after he installed the meter and he was surprised when I asked him. He asked why.
I told him about a fire that happened in a friends house where he got the blame for it after a meter was installed.
He then showed me what he had installed and said the seal on the meter links to him and if something happens he would be responsible. However he said that if there was a fire it would have been the white switch box or the black cables on the right side coming into the property that would have caused the fire.
Isn't there something these engineers are supposed to produce? What is the deal with health and safety certificates for installing meters? Surely there is laws regarding this.
I also have another friend got his own meter installed by an independent qualified engineer and they cut his electric off in the street claiming it was because of health and safety and he was provided with a certificate, which they claimed wasn't valid as only they could do the health and safety checks and validate a certificate. So as you can see there is some confusion as to what is true here. If these engineers don't provide them then what qualifies the safety?
Any help would be appreciated.
