should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for money?

[tamz]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

I think the numerous plumbing bodies out there could do more to highlight the dangerous of using cowboy plumbers by the use of adverts in magazines etc.

In Scotland and Northern Ireland this body SNIPEF Home - Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers Federation (as have the other bodies in England and Wales), have been lobbying government for years to try to get some kind of compulsory licencing scheme.
They are not interested although the Scottish government are listening a bit. We'll see.

At the moment they do run a licencing scheme and it does impress some people and open some doors if you are licenced.

 

[jase158]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

There is the hackney carriage they give people the licences, then you as an employer have to ensure that you have all the paperwork for each employee, including driving license, tax, mot, insurance and a valid hackney license which i believe gets renewed every year or two. also the taxi company must write down every single job taken, if any of these are missing then there is a £1000 fine per item missing. So put simply the employer is held responsible.

 

[Puddle]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

You just have your iris scanned with the customers mobile phone which has a app to connect and check it at the national plumbing and vicuallers data base

 

[fuzzy]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

so i need a taxi now?

 

[bcp]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

NO-unless there is access to training/courses for anyone regardless of age or funds. The closed shop scenario or exclusions because of.....is unacceptable. Oh and get ready to pay huge fees to the governing body.

 

[jase158]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

are we talikng about the same NVQ here, i am talking about the 6089 level 3

 

[tamz]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

I dont have an NVQ!

 

[fuzzy]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

[DLMURL]http://www.cityandguilds.com/documents/ind_construction_plumbing/6089_Candidate_workplace_evidence_record_(Level_3).pdf[/DLMURL]

page 10 mate

 

[fuzzy]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

are we talikng about the same NVQ here, i am talking about the 6089 level 3

the 6089 level 3 is the nvq???

 

[fuzzy]

Re: should government make it law to be qualified plumber to do plumbing work for mon

[DLMURL]http://www.cityandguilds.com/documents/ind_construction_plumbing/6089_Scheme-Handbook.pdf[/DLMURL]

and this one page 20, probably explains it better, this ok now?