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I know what you and Andy are getting at and I know you need a JIB card to get on certain sites.
I know there is a big world out there, you have to know this as well.... That's why we have electricians with different knowledge bases. (As I have mentioned before)... Again, at the end of the day "There is no legal definition of 'electrician'." everyone has their own opinion. Mine is more open minded..
I suppose I too am open minded but my definition is also very flexible. For example whether I would regard a short course guy as an electrician or not would depend on whether they actually knew what they were doing or not and the standard of their work. That said, I wouldn't regard a diyer that had done a good standard compliant installation as an electrician.
In general I stick to the industry accepted definition of electrician as it is clear and easy.
In the world of short courses none are made equal in terms of qualification so where do you draw the line of definition ? Do we say an Aldi shelf stacker that has just sat their 2382 is now an electrician with a different knowledge base ? How about if we chuck a 3 day building regs course on top ? electrician yet ?
My problem here is that in this more open minded definition everybody in the world is an electrician with a different knowledge base, just some with a knowledge base of zero. So where do we draw the line ? My line gets drawn where the industry chose to draw it many many years ago as it is still the most meaningful level of requirements we have.
I am aware that there are plenty more highly qualified and less qualified people than this level that reject this yardstick though.