Celebrating 60 years of NICEIC contractors
ROLLING BACK THE YEARS It’s 1956 and the Quarrymen are yet to become the Beatles, Manchester United become the first English team to compete in the European Cup and the Suez crisis dominates the newspaper headlines. It is also the year that NICEIC is formed to promote electrical safety. Rob Shepherd takes a look back over the years
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he past 60 years have been a period of unprecedented change in the electrical contracting industry, and NICEIC has been at the forefront of protecting the public from unsafe and unsound electrical work. Let’s take a look back and remember the defining moments from the industry and beyond over the past six decades.
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19561965 The National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting (NICEIC) is incorporated in August 1956 – “at last”, comments Electrical Times. Coinciding with the introduction of the 13th edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations, it starts out with 14 area engineers – one for each area electricity board – together with a small head office staff. The first roll of Approved Contractors is published in 1957 and lists 3,511 firms
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