EAS Qualifications Guide

Once you’ve qualified as an electrician, your employer may want you to be assessed by an organisation known as a Certification or Registration Body. If you’re self-employed, you may also wish to get assessed yourself.

About Certification / Registration Bodies and the EAS

Certification or Registration Bodies operate a variety of different schemes covering electrotechnical work, including Competent Person Schemes which allow you to notify relevant work to Building Control, and schemes for periodic inspection and testing work.

These Certification and Registration Bodies must adhere to the Electrotechnical Assessment Specification (EAS), hosted by the IET, which sets out the assessment requirements and technical competence level that enterprises (such as businesses or sole traders) have to meet when applying to join a scheme.

What you’ll need

You’ll need to hold specific qualifications that meet the entry criteria of the relevant scheme, and have at least two years’ responsibility for electrotechnical work and evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development.

When you’re assessed during your application, you’ll need to demonstrate the right combination of technical knowledge, occupational training and practical skills. Usually you’ll have gained this via an industry apprenticeship or, if you’re an experienced worker, through accredited qualifications that have been achieved via Recognition of Prior Experiential Learning (RPEL).

EAS Qualifications Guide

To help you understand what qualifications you’ll need, the EAS Qualifications Guide identifies the acceptable qualifications for each work category that falls under the EAS.

Both the Electrotechnical Assessment Specification and the EAS Qualifications Guide are developed under the direction of the EAS Management Committee. On the committee’s behalf we publish the current EAS Qualifications Guide on this website as a general resource for electricians, electrical contractors and training providers.

Download the EAS Qualifications Guide

Do you need to get qualified?

If you don’t yet have the correct qualifications and need help with getting qualified, this information may help:

Experienced Worker Assessment – for those who have been working in the industry for a number of years

Training Routes – the industry approved routes to becoming qualified across all nations of the UK