Stay up-to-date when PIR Becomes EICR

As most of you will know, the PIR is to have a facelift, for want of a better term. The IET have decided that PIR’s are to become EICR’s. The new form is a radical change from the existing PIR, and the thought process is that it will make things clearer to the guy filling it out.

At first glance, it’s terrifying, but once you start to drill down into what they have done, you will soon realise it all makes sense, (finally!).

What isn’t clear at first glance though, is the fact that any subsequent boards (not including the main board) will require a separate Schedule of Inspections for each board. That’s a lot of questions to answer, and an awful lot of writing should there be a common theme of deviation on the installation you are inspecting.

We have already discussed at length how PIRform will handle these changes, and feel that the up coming changes will benefit us, and ultimately you, the end user.

There are approximately 200+ pages of changes to the First Amendment, not to mention the Regulation numbers. Those who currently use the program will know that PIRform has the vast majority of the current Regulations built in. We plan to have both sets of Regulations available when the time comes, including any other changes relevant to the program.

Our aim is to have the EICR available on the day that the First Amendment is available, giving users the option to stay up to date with BS 7671.