I served a 5 year electrical apprenticeship in the early 70's but only worked as an electrician for a few years before moving on to other things. Now I'm semi-retired and was thinking it'd be good to return to do some part-time work as an electrician again. My original apprenticeship was in heavy engineering (mainly 3ph motor control and switchgear but I also did a certain amount of domestic wiring!). Anyway I thought I'd see what was involved in getting up to speed on the latest regs./methods etc. How interesting this has been. It's seems I am qualified to do just about nothing, electrically . My 5 year part time day-release qualification CGLI course doesn't seem relevant any more (do the electrons know I wonder!) and at the other end of the scale my B.Sc in electrical eng. seems also irrelevant. So basically I am reasonably well qualified, and experienced yet I can't seem to work at what I was trained to do. Have taken a look around the web I see these things,
CGLI 2391
16th ED BS7671 PART P NIC EICWould some kind soul care to put the above words into a one paragraph description of so that a mere mortal can understand what he might need to work as a self-employed electrician on domestic installations.
I do know what some of these things are but a description of how it all fits together by someone who knows would be appreciated.