Just got an extremely dumb.....very retorical question/comment here:

I've been doing this for a while, and I would love to see even one electrician who does a COC for every job .

Firstly: If you add the COC price to the installation the cost is higher than your competition, and you loose the job. If you keep the cost the same and do a proper COC than you shouldn't be in business, you will in the long run close down.

You can do a crappy COC.....superman test and issue it, but that doesn't count, so do not even go there.

I am yet to see an electrician who does this for a living, not talking about an after work or weekend pocket money guy, who issues a COC for EVERY SINGLE JOB he does (disregarding maintenance). Just after you do the courses you are realllllllly positivive, saying to yourself that you will be different and do this thing exactly right every time!!! Also keep in mind that if you are a maintenance electrician working for a company, doing installations for the company weekly, you should be issuing COC's for every installation as well Now, add that to the time you have available since the very large corporation can't afford to hire another electrician

How about this.......everyone rather start working to the standards that they are capable of working, specify and do an installation perfectly every time, test it and know it is safe. Perhaps that way we'll actually have safer houses COC or no COC, since I've come across idiots lately who issue a 20 minute COC.....P.S.I would love to know how they do it, it takes me at least 30 minutes to write the COC out? Another 20 minutes to do a computer generated 2D image of the installation in question with the entire electrical layout. I guess they could leave that out?

Just a comment.