I've been working as a domestic electrician for 6+ years now alongside two NICEIC approved contractors and I hold my 1/2/3 City & Guilds NVQ, 18th edition and 2 million public liability.
I started doing the odd side jobs a while back but my work seems to have snowballed to the point where I am booking in full re-wires, extension jobs, kitchens & bathrooms, consumer units.. you name it.. So I thought maybe it time I should get registered under a competent persons scheme.
The issue is that a lot of these schemes ask for years and years of certificates, company logs, health & safety reports etc.. but if I'm a sole trader trying to grow my business I'm not going to have access to these sorts of records yet?
I have always worked to the standard that the NICEIC electricians taught me and carried out testing & inspecting, issuing EIC & Schedule of test results on all the jobs I've completed using my generic Kewtech test sheets that came with my test kit.
But it's got me thinking how am I supposed to meet the registry criteria if I'm 'legally' not supposed to be carrying out the work anyway, or is being a qualified competent person working to 18th edition and issuing all the correct paperwork to support my physical work enough?
I started doing the odd side jobs a while back but my work seems to have snowballed to the point where I am booking in full re-wires, extension jobs, kitchens & bathrooms, consumer units.. you name it.. So I thought maybe it time I should get registered under a competent persons scheme.
The issue is that a lot of these schemes ask for years and years of certificates, company logs, health & safety reports etc.. but if I'm a sole trader trying to grow my business I'm not going to have access to these sorts of records yet?
I have always worked to the standard that the NICEIC electricians taught me and carried out testing & inspecting, issuing EIC & Schedule of test results on all the jobs I've completed using my generic Kewtech test sheets that came with my test kit.
But it's got me thinking how am I supposed to meet the registry criteria if I'm 'legally' not supposed to be carrying out the work anyway, or is being a qualified competent person working to 18th edition and issuing all the correct paperwork to support my physical work enough?
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