This document provides information about a 10-week course on the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations, including:
- The course will cover the contents and requirements of the 300+ page 17th Edition regulations book issued by the IEE for electrical installations.
- Studying the regulations will provide a City & Guilds qualification and is required for registration with N.I.C.E.I.C.
- Students will learn how to interpret regulations, requirements for special locations, inspection and testing, and use tables and appendices.
- Assessment will be a multiple choice online exam through City & Guilds at the end of the 10 weeks.
2. 17th Edition Wiring Regulations
What are the 16th Edition Wiring
Regulations?
What is the purpose of the regulations?
What will this qualification do for me?
What does it involve to study these
regulations?
How will I be assessed?
3. What are the 17th Edition Wiring
Regulations?
300+ pages of information & the On Site
Guide (when issued)
Known as "the Regs book"
Issued by the Institute of Electrical
Engineers (IEE)
Requirements for Electrical Installations
IEE Wiring Regulations Seventeenth
Edition BS 7671: 2008
Non-statutory document
4. What is the purpose of the
regulations?
SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY AND SAFETY
Divided into 7 parts with appendices and the On Site Guide
Part 1 - Scope, Object and Fundamental Requirements for
safety
Part 2 - Definitions
Part 3 - Assessment of general Characteristics
Part 4 - Protection for Safety
Part 5 - Selection and Erection of Equipment
Part 6 - special Installations or Locations
Part 7 - Inspection and Testing
Appendices - 15 off
On Site Guide
5. What will this Qualification do for
me?
Gain a nationally recognised qualification -
City & Guilds 2381-01
Required by N.I.C.E.I.C. for registration
Increase employment prospects
6. What does it involve to study
these regulations?
You would need: --
To be qualified to City & Guilds 2360 part 2 (or
equivalent)
Approximately 30 hours training
You will learn: --
Where to find information in the books
How to interpret this information
The requirements for special locations
The requirements for inspecting and testing
How to use the tables and appendices
The contents of the On - Site Guide
7. How will I be assessed?
Multiple choice, on-line, City and Guilds
examination.
60 questions.
2 hours duration.
When? - At end of course (week 12 ish)
18:00 20:00 hrs.
Where? Hagley Road Centre
8. Clear as mud?
Anyone got any questions?
GOOD.
Lets get started.