Its not that we are complaining about them being too stringent, its more to do with the fact that to wire a socket in a bedroom for someone you need to jump though numerous expensive hoops but to wire a full factory with three phase and many killing machines you don't need anything, its just madness.We used to regularly have threads on here complaining about how joining the NICEIC etc is too easy and they are letting anyone in.
Many posts would be calling for the NICEIC to toughen up their membership requirements and only allow fully qualified electricians to join.
And now here we have a thread complaining that they've done what we were asking for!
In my opinion every spark should be assessed just once or maybe every 10 years or so to see if they can actually do the job, if they can then they can operate as an electrician whether they have qualifications or not, they could then get a licence to operate as an electrician in any field, payable to the government, just like a driving licence. You wouldn't be able to employ anyone who didn't have a licence and use yours instead, just like a driver cant use your driving licence to drive a truck.
But where is the money in that, imagine the NICEIC faced with that scenario, they would run out of brown envelopes trying to stop it.