Electrician Startup Checklist

Name the work and check competence

Write down the services you will undertake, the relevant qualification/assessment evidence and any gap. A standalone knowledge course is not the complete occupational route. Use the qualification evidence planner before buying more training.

Choose the country and compliance route

Identify any notifiable work and arrange the applicable scheme, certifier or building-control route before starting. England and Wales have different guidance; Scotland and NI have separate arrangements. Use the country and document checklist. An ECS card and an EIC do not submit notification.

Confirm the actual business, cover and access

Choose the business structure and its registration/record obligations. Confirm insurance covers the proposed services and any scheme/client conditions. If hiring, check employers' liability requirements and exceptions. Record who arranges the site access and induction.

Agree scope, price basis and changes

Identify the customer ordering the work, address, inclusions, exclusions, approval dependencies and handover documents. Use a quote and keep the customer's actual agreement and subsequent variations with the job.

Prepare the actual electrical handover

Choose EIC, Minor Works or EICR for the performed work. The free EIC walkthrough follows the blank PDF fields, schedules and combined signer responsibility. Retain the signed record and give the relevant handover to the person ordering the work; keep separate building compliance evidence where required.

Keep credentials and changes actionable

For each credential record the body, scope, actual expiry/review date, evidence location and action owner. For a relevant official change record country, effective date, affected work and what was updated. Keep that log separate from booked job dates.