Keep the information coming Wal. 

You may think you're not getting any responces but it's just that most of us are in shock of some of the shit you are exposing.   I can't get over some of these figures.  How can we be putting so much into a regulatory body that is taking us backwards?

How thick is the government for not taking action?. They go on about increasing productivity and shit like that but all they do is create more costs.

The "people" that came up with this idea were the Department of Building and Housing.  There were several people involved - all suits - and very, very little consultation was done with tradespeople (gasfitters OR electricians).  Meetings were held but they were at times like 9am in Wellington - full of suits - people from DBH, ESS, consumer bodies, consultants, energy suppliers, the PGDB sent someone, Master Plumbers had someone there, but essentially the guys in polo shirts and shorts weren't anywhere to be seen.  There was a lot of stuff on DBH website, but it was buried where the average practitioner wouldn't see it.

The whole thing has been a bad joke and is not in the interest of practitioners, the public or the regulators of either industry.  I'm pretty sure the project leader was a Ms Judith Burney, but I stand to be corrected.  I know there were emails galore circulating about the sort of things that would happen if this thing progressed.

Talk about baby being thrown out with the bath water.  The existing system was reasonably transparent, accessible and cost effective.  This system is a bloody joke.  Days out from it all hardly anyone seems to have a clue.  I predict very little "certified" gasfitting will take place in July.

We went from inspectors (high lighting problems on site at the time of install before anyone even turns it on)....

Then to a registered cert on an accessible/ monitored data base of self certification (high lighting problems on random audit) .......

Then to a "make your own up on a printer and write and store your own certificate system" (highlighting problems on the size of the explosion crater/number of people with CO poisoning)......

This new system will only highlight a problem AFTER an incident.....they are going from stopping someone at the top of the cliff, to being an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff  and now finally changing the mode of transport to a hearse....at the bottom of the cliff.......

Look at this new system, then add all the short comings and dodgy shit to it.....can some one tell me why these clowns are still telling us we are incompetent and constant need up-skilling???

Why is no one, other than the Feds, doing anything about this bullshit?

Bring back inspectors and sensible safety precautions...this new system is all about accountability....after an incident....

Surely it is better to prevent a problem......

You can see them planning it in some back room.........

......we'll let them think they are being empowered and the stupid dicks will pay for the system AND take all the responsibility.....

If the intention was to protect the public how did we get here?

Its all about running a no cost (to them) no responsibility (to them) system......nothing more, nothing less.....

And as my situation highlights all the responsibility on the tradesman, whether you did anything wrong or not. Just looking to blame someone for THEIR short comings.......nice.

More mines for their field