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Most approved installer schemes are based upon strict acceptance criteria allied with minimal audit regimes. Indeed, the Mk. I FIA AIS was based on this tradition.

In comparison, a Mk. I FIA Approved Installer needs to do more than meet a set of externally-defined criteria and, equally, the FIA provides considerably more assistance on a day-to-day basis.

The publication of BS 6701 in 2004 and the way in which it “locks in” the other primary installation standards (BS 7671, BS EN 60825 and the BS EN 50174 series of standards) was a major opportunity for the FIA and its Approved Installer Scheme.

For the first time, it became possible to embed risk-managed and best installation practices into a single quality assurance tool.


The Mk. II AIS has removed the requirement for ISO 9000 conformance and the criteria of the personal competence.

So although, an Approved Installer is still required to provide basic quality assurance and competency/training records information, the fundamental requirement of the Mk. II scheme is to adopt and fully implement the FIA Approved Installer Database as a means of recording the risk-assessments that apply to each installation. In return the FIA is adding a significant degree of hyperlinked local and on-line assistance which calls in the expertise of the FIA in its standardisation activities.

In essence, the FIA Approved Installer Database brings the Approved Installer and the FIA into a partnership in support of risk-managed installations.


The policing of the new scheme requires the project-by-project submission of the basedata from the Approved Installer Database (all commercial information removed). This allows statistical analysis of the records by the FIA to determine industry trends and also enable installations to be selected for audit against the specific record provided.

POLICING THE APPROVAL SYSTEM

Each Approved Installer will be asked, at least once per year, to select a number of their installations from a shortlist prepared from those submitted to the FIA Central Database. The selected installations will be them be fully auditted by the FIA Approved Installer Directorate.

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