Roles and Responsibilities
- Competency of Licensed Electrical Workers
- Licensing of Registered Electrical Workers
- Discipline of Licensed Electrical Workers
- Promotion of electrical safety
- Resource management, monitoring and review of outcomes
Services and Activities
To provide the services required of it, the Board enters into commercial transactions
with organisations based on transparent and competitive tendering.
The Board constantly reviews the way in which things are done, plays a key role in
informing the public about electrical and electronic safety issues and is responsible for
running disciplinary hearings.
- Register electrical and electronic workers including maintaining the register of such
workers
- Issues Provisional Licenses
- Issues Tradesperson Certificates
- Issues Practising Licenses
- Issues and monitors Certificate of Compliance
- Issues and monitors Electrical Safety Certificates
- Educates both internal and external target audiences
- Sets examinations in association with training providers
- Audits electrical work in accordance with risk
- Manages Complaints and Disciplinary Proceedings
Consumer Information
Information on heat pumps
Check List – When you need an Electrical Worker
- Ask if they are a registered electrical worker with a current practising license– they should have an ID card which shows their registration number. Also you can check the electrical workers public register www.ewr.govt.nz to substantiate their credentials’.
- The ID card summarises the limits of the electrical worker registration;
- Electrical Service Technician (Limited to the maintenance and replacement of electrical appliances and fittings rated up to 460 volts including their disconnection from and reconnection to fixed wiring)
- Electrical Service Technician (Limited to the maintenance of electrical appliances rated up to 10 amp, 230 volt, single phase supplied via plug and flexible cord)
- Electrical Service Technician (Limited to the maintenance of electrical appliances rated up to 230 volt, single phase supplied via plug and flexible cord)
- Electrical Service Technician (Limited to the maintenance of electrical appliances rated up to 230 volt, single phase supplied via plug and flexible cord including connection of single phase appliances to fixed outlets)
- Electrician (Entitled to carry out all prescribed electrical work)
- Inspector (Entitled to carry out all prescribed electrical work and inspection of other electrical worker work)
- When installation work is completed the electrical worker must provide you with a Certificate of Compliance (CoC). This is your assurance that the work complies with the New Zealand Electrical and Safety Standards.
- The first thing to do if you have a problem with electrical work is to discuss it with the electrical worker or company who did the job. If you can’t come to a resolution you’re happy with, you have the option of laying a formal complaint to the Electrical Workers Registration Board. Go to http://www.ewrb.govt.nz/content/complaints.html
If in doubt please call us free on 0800 661-000 (8.30am-5pm weekdays)
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