What do you recon is this another backdown by the board? 
If we keep the pressure up things can change


Hi ++++++
We are delaying the changes to the public register for about a month. A newsletter providing information on this will be circulated tomorrow.
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Max Pedersen
Chief Executive
Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board

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-----Original Message-----
From: registrar@pgdb.co.nz [mailto:registrar@pgdb.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, 11 June 2012 9:55 p.m.
To: Registrar
Subject: Enquiry sent from the PGDB website

Name: 

Registration Number:

Email: 

Enquiry: When are you going to alter the page of personal details so we can edit what the public will be able to see? NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DECISION. will provide min amount of detail possible. Lot of people will provide false details and bugger your ability to be able to contact them


Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/pgdb-new-zealand-plumbing-gasfitting-and-drainlaying-board/30/another-board-u-turn/1154/

Sounds good, I dont see any laws stopping people from hammering the relevant areas or people of this industry with letters or e-mails.

Good one aboutgas, nice to see a corporate at the board take note.

Actually heard about another incident the other day where a property had a flue coming out very close to a gas meter.  Gasfitter tunred up to do a reconnect and would not do it as clearances were insufficient - three gas certs on the property - one for a cooker, one for two water heaters and one for a Rinnai balanced flue.  He knew one of the gasfitters and so phoned him to ask him if he remembers the job - said gasfitter visited the property and said he had never done work there - the had done work at the house next door, but not that one.  Got told that one of his certs showed on the PGDB website against this property so home he goes to request a paper copy and blow shit out of them for incorrect data entry.  Energy supplier have requested copies of all certificates - and so someone is going to be in the crap up to their eyeballs - looks like the first cert taken out was for the balanced flue heater - but then at least one other gasfitter has visited site and installed this and not picked up the short distance between flue and meter.  No OPSO on meter - so it definitely a problem.

We should expect, no, demand the highest standards from the PGDB when they judge others for anything less then correct.  Bollocking up data entry is not acceptable, there should have been checking and double checking methodologies employed - or better still - scan them and post them - then there is no mistake about what has been put down and what is available publicly.

Sadly - how much more faith can we have in the proposed system???   And how will the Board audit gasfitters without this information?  Will ESS pass it to them, but then if it is a low or medium risk installation nothing looks like it will be filed with them, so it could end up like the sparky auditing where they pull your name out of a hat and ask to see all your certificates or jobs and then select a random number to visit.

and Jax who are they going to "randomly" audit......those they want to get...... ignoring their mates and those who suck up....

Jax .....the most dangerous gas set up in my opinion are the totally mobile, flueless cabinet heaters with a 9 kg right in the back of it......go figure, they contravene nearly every reg ( clearance from source of ignition, vented cylinder enclosures, plain common sense, never mind the damp) .....it has one of the smallest gas cylinders used in NZ (placed about 50 mm behind the burner) and a relativity low MJ  rating, you can put them in any room ( but you should not, and this mobility is one of the main concerns ) and any muppet can "install" them so to speak, just pop along to any hard ware store and buy one....and people never get them serviced. All with out any cert or expert to set up, actually endorsed as such.

But they sell so much gas through them it is allowed..... funny how the same gas industry don't pay any thing toward the policing and enforcing of the same regs that allow them to profit from the public......all represented by the industry groups that sit on the Board.........funny that. Reg's written and enforced by the same crew....actually paid handsomely for it, all against the recommendations of the NZ law commission and with full permission of the Right Horrible Member (lol member) of Parliament and bulding and construction minister.

But now two misguided young souls have sadly lost their lives we will have an inquiry ( which will be about huffing and not these deadly heaters)..... of note is we are one of the only countries in the world to allow these mobile death traps, by the same muppets captaining this off course galleon of bullshit.