why do you think they pushed for self certification in the first place....ALL THE RESPONSIBILITY is on the gas fitter. Big business, big profits...no responsibility.....nice work if you can get it.

Roberto - write to the PGDB and tell them that the Mitre 10 lends out a crimping tool - they will write to the Mitre 10 - they do take this seriously and will use it as an exercise to educate them about the regulated trade.  It is worth the effort and the cost of a stamp - or better still email them and provide the name and address of the Mitre 10 store.

And....... (this is not a bad joke but the state of affairs) .......as of March 2013 able to print their own certificate...with no third party register......or gas suppliers copy......until you need an investigator, to look into the "incident" at over $100 an hour with all expenses paid, flights and nice hotels while touring our fabulous country. Nice work if you can wangle it to your favour.

I totally agree, lets have every job inspected and signed off by an impartial 3rd party ....but it isn't that way.

How would they know what to check, inspect, audit?? It will just be between the customer and the certifying gasfitter, all under the radar.

It will empower the dodgy guys to work unimpeded & undetected and those that shoulder their responsibilities take more of it on. We had a system that had 4 copies retained, 3 of which were carbon copies, with hand writting and a signature..... that is now halved to 2 with no 3rd party records all "signed off" with an electronic pass word. It has been totally messed up by the previous Boards of the last 10 years and going to be even more messed up if they do this.

You will only know about a problem, after the problem.

It is not the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, but the hearse. It will never work as it is proposed, it isn't well thought out. And again it will be those at the coal face who will have to put up with the cost, hassle, flak and fall out.