SOS! Rare 1950’s tapered brass ‘Bray 657A’ valve (or someone who could repair

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

H & S is a growth industry

Largely because litigation is an even bigger growth industry, and corporate and institutional risk management prioritises litigation avoidance above pretty much everything else.

Once the lad you taught has got the relevant paperwork, corporations and institutions will feel protected sending him out on jobs. With all your experience but without the relevant paperwork your employability is on about the same level as someone turning up for a job interview at the Houses of Parliament with a barrel of gunpowder under his arm and calling himself Guy Fawkes.

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

My annoyance is well founded. If I have an electrician’s ticket, then I am deemed to be competent at repair and installation. If that is the case, why must I hold a test and inspection certificate to certify my own work? I consider this to be totally illogical. I can understand the need for a test and inspection ticket, if I am asked to check an installation that I have not installed, but for my own work? Come off it this is just stupid!

As for the necessity to belong to some body that merely takes a fair amount of cash from me and does nothing else that is useful to me, I consider that to simply be a rip off. Would anyone who is a rules and regulations stickler, like to point out where I am wrong and how the twisted logic makes any sense?

Andrew.

[Martin Johnson 1Participant @martinjohnson1]

With all your experience but without the relevant paperwork your employability is on about the same level as someone turning up for a job interview at the Houses of Parliament with a barrel of gunpowder under his arm and calling himself Guy Fawkes.

Well I would be happy to employ Mr Fawkes in his specialist area of expertise……………………  The only man ever to get into parliament with honest intentions.

Martin

 

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Don’t just rant on here, no-one with any influence is listening. Write to your MP with a detailed explanation, then there is some small chance of getting it changed.

We won’t get away from a requirement for competence, and self assessment isn’t going to work, loads of people who shouldn’t be let loose to change a light bulb would just blithely assume they were competent to work on mains circuits.

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