  
9. Update on core capabilities for electricians
In 2000 the Board accepted the Australian and New Zealand Electrical Regulatory Advisory Council (ERAC) developed core capabilities as the fundamental requirements for electrician’s registration.
Since the development and acceptance of the capabilities and the concept of capstone testing, considerable progress has been made with integrating the capabilities into the national qualifications and registration/licensing requirements.
The capabilities have been incorporated into the National Certificate in Electrical Engineering (Electrician) (Level 4).
As part of the capstoning policy the critical capabilities have been integrated into specific unit standards. The measurement tool for the passing of the unit standards will be the passing of two Board conducted examinations.
One examination is regulatory, based on AS/NZS 3000, while the other is theory based.
While the regulatory examination has been part of the qualification for some time the theory examination has now also been incorporated into the qualification.
Examination subject material will be amended so that future examinations will be based on the critical capabilities.
The practical aspects for registration have been incorporated into the National Certificate as a consolidation of on and off job assessments.
Supervision guidelines will be cited in unit standards where the demonstration of practical "hands on" electrical work is required.
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