When the Federation ceased operations, I said I would be watching and have kept a close eye on what’s going on and I can report with total disgust that the plumbing gasfitting and drainlaying industry is getting totally shafted. The bureaucrats are destroying the regulation and training within the industry and there is no consultation on anything. It seems it’s all about money as fees go up and the standards of what is supplied goes down.
Remember when people in power stoop so low that nothing will change, and they lose the trust and respect of those they should be regulating they leave those people with very few options. 
The Minister and the Plumbers Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board are at a total joke and if these people don’t have standards, then how can they expect us to follow their leadership for a better industry.   
People I have spoken to in the industry have no voice to effect change and have nothing to lose except the tread on their boots as they walk away. Come on industry use your voice and speak up on this forum.

Regards

Wal

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/fellow-practitioners-update/41/getting-shafted/3727/

For clarity when I say "ignoring 9 people of interest for an explosion that nearly killed someone"...

I should say ignoring 9 people who were highlighted by the investigation (inquisition) of that explosion...

There is only one person to whom I believe the evidence points to for the explosion... handwriting samples indicated by an expert, receipts (especially for the hose that caused the explosion), he was the last person there, photos that show my initial install was altered, etc, etc, etc.

They hid the photos that proved what I had said for 2 years, proving the pipe was lowered...while they sent my wife child sexual abuse case notes to prove a point on probability, sent just as we were forced to sell our home. My very young sons lived in a caravan with my wife while I was forced to work away. My wife using a chemical toilet and collecting drinking water for a whole winter.

Think on that...the installation was altered...the cylinder station was totally replaced, mid way an appliance was added, the pipe lowered that supplied the two fryers and the third hose sold weeks after I left the job...because the hose had ruptured before the explosion...add to that, that the original "complaint" actually named someone else as the installer of the appliances...named in the DOL report.

How do you think you'd fair??? Did I deserve to get that inflicted on my family???

What I am trying to say is that there are more people who should be looked at, I believe there is even a case of fraud ignored. I can prove all this...

But you guys just remember to pay your licenses and get trained...so you can keep everyone safe... Or the PGDB will come after you...even if you've done nothing wrong (but it suits their agenda).