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WorksheetsUnit 101 - Industry bodies & Types of organisations
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 12mins
Match the type of company with the correct size.
Small Company
Sole Trader
Medium Company
Partnership
Large Company
Limited company
An electrician can specialise in (a) .
The (b) will sign the main contract with the client to carry out the work according to the drawings and specification.
A carpenter can specialise in (c) .
The (d) will sign a contract with the main contractor to carry out (e) of the whole job.
(a) can specialise in the installation of (b) .
A bricklayer can specialise in (c) .
A gas engineer needs to be registered with (d) .
Industrial plumbers will commonly use (a) in the installation of (b) .
A (c) is required to carry out PPM for (d) to avoid any unforeseen breakdowns.
1. What do the following initials stand for?
ECA
Electrical Contractors' Association
JIB
: Joint Industry Board
IET
Institute of Engineering Technology
APHC
Association of Plumbing and Heating Co
What type of advice does the Joint Industry Board (JIB) offer to employers?
Advice on grades, wages, allowances, benefits, employment advice, and industrial agreements.
Advice on water resources, quality of service, and infrastructure.
Advice on international standardisation of regulations and wiring regulations.
Advice on support services to contractors and enhancing the profile of the industry.
What type of information can you find on the Joint Industry Board (JIB) website?
Information on support services to contractors and enhancing the profile of the industry.
Information on international standardisation of regulations and wiring regulations.
Information on water resources, quality of service, and infrastructure.
Information on grading job roles, associated wages, allowances such as holidays and sick pay, and a benefits scheme including additional sick pay, medical cover, and life cover.
What are the responsibilities of water authorities?
To manage the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties, ensuring the safety and reliability of the supply.
To oversee the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems, ensuring efficient and safe travel for all users.
To supply clean drinking water to each property and remove foul water for treatment, with the water supply transported through a national infrastructure of pipes that eventually lead to individual properties. The quality of service and the quality of water is continually monitored.
To regulate the telecommunications industry, ensuring fair competition and the provision of high-quality services to consumers.
What role does the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) play in the electrical industry?
It regulates the telecommunications industry, ensuring fair competition and the provision of high-quality services to consumers.
It oversees the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems, ensuring efficient and safe travel for all users.
It manages the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties, ensuring the safety and reliability of the supply.
It plays a key role in electrical installation standards and safety, offers a professional registration scheme for electricians, and helps produce the wiring regulations to BS7671, which is used every day in construction.
What role does the ECA play in the electrical industry?
It regulates the telecommunications industry, ensuring fair competition and the provision of high-quality services to consumers.
It manages the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties, ensuring the safety and reliability of the supply.
It supports electrical contractors in the trade by offering training, insurance cover, and lobbying, while building a sustainable industry and enhancing the profile of the industry.
It oversees the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems, ensuring efficient and safe travel for all users.
What role does the Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors (APHC) play in the plumbing industry?
It supports plumbing contractors in the trade by offering training, insurance, certified membership, professional advice from a dedicated helpline, and offers on tool purchase and promotion.
It regulates the telecommunications industry, ensuring fair competition and the provision of high-quality services to consumers
It oversees the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems, ensuring efficient and safe travel for all users.
It manages the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties, ensuring the safety and reliability of the supply.
What is the primary role of Building Control in the UK?
To ensure that buildings, extensions, and specific property alterations are built to high standards, ensuring the safety and health of people in and around the buildings, and that building work meets the minimum standards set out in the Building Regulations.
To regulate the telecommunications industry, ensuring fair competition and the provision of high-quality services to consumers.
To oversee the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems, ensuring efficient and safe travel for all users.
To manage the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties, ensuring the safety and reliability of the supply.
What activities are carried out by Building Control to ensure compliance with Building Regulations?
They regulate the telecommunications industry.
They oversee the construction and maintenance of roadways and public transportation systems.
They manage the distribution of electricity and gas to residential and commercial properties.
They carry out site inspections to ensure that work, once commenced, is carried out in accordance with the Building Regulations.
