ESC's New Best Practice Guide
The Electrical Safety Council has issued a new Best Practice Guide for electrical contractors and installers on the subject of periodic inspection reporting. The guide was produced in association with a number of other leading industry bodies.
The aim of the guide, Periodic Inspection Reporting – recommendation codes for domestic and similar electrical installations is to provide practical guidance for electricians on the correct way to attribute Recommendation Codes when carrying out a Periodic Inspection Report.
The guide introduces a new concept for PIRs – that any observation given either a Recommendation Code 1 (requires urgent attention) or 2 (requires improvement) should result in the overall assessment of the condition of the installation being recorded as unsatisfactory.
Previous guidance has been that only observations given a Code 1 should automatically result in an overall unsatisfactory assessment. This has, in the past, resulted in Code 2 observations being ignored by many householders and landlords having electrical installations that are potentially dangerous.
Copies of the guide can be downloaded free of charge from the Business and Communities section of www.esc.org.uk. Copies of the other three Best Practice Guides published so far by the Electrical Safety Council can also be downloaded from that site.
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