North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Musings of chief inspector and president of SENWI House Inspections

Saturday, November 2, 2013

New players in the electrical business, but is the public safe?

ASTTBC now has approval to provide 'semi-skilled' labour to perform limited fields of work, like testing, servicing and repairing of electrical, electronic and biomedical equipment.

Per this Tyee article,  this move has the electrical professionals fearful of public safety and welfare.

ASTTBC continues to move into industries that are already well served by others certification.  This leads to competing certifications and confusion in the industries and needless bureaucracy to manage duel systems.

It became clear to this inspector well over a year ago, that ASTTBC does not appear to have ever been about public safety, and instead appears to be about building an empire.

But at who's expense and risk?

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