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February 26th, 2022 at 9:21:47 AM permalink

Gandler

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Quote: kenarman
I may have posted this before. The electrical apprenticeship is 4 years of time with 4 sessions of 8 or 10 weeks of trade school during that time. The most dangerous time for my apprentices was always when they came back from their first session at trade school. They came back thinking they actually knew everything and would make more mistakes then when they left for school. We would keep an extra eye on them for the first month or two and remind them they still had 3 more years before they became a journeyman. The trades like all careers are now a life long learning situation and even more so now then ever before. The constant changing of building codes, plumbing and electrical codes. New technologies constantly hitting the industry most of what you learned in trade school is obsolete within 5 or 10 years. By the time a course is prepared and readily available you have already learned it on site from the manufacturers rep.

What electrical codes does Canada use, ICC? Or do they have their own? (America, at least most States, uses the NEC, for electric instead of ICC, but ICC for most everything else).

February 26th, 2022 at 7:19:53 PM permalink
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4512	There is the national 'Canadian Electrical Code' but many of the Provinces make some changes to it for their Province. Even some of the larger cities modify the base code for their own city. Typically a new code comes out every 3 years. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin

February 26th, 2022 at 8:48:45 PM permalink

Gandler

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Quote: kenarman
There is the national 'Canadian Electrical Code' but many of the Provinces make some changes to it for their Province. Even some of the larger cities modify the base code for their own city. Typically a new code comes out every 3 years.

Three years is pretty much the standard here too for most Codes (all ICC codes certainly). Many States adopt mandatory codes, which must be followed (and local Cities cannot change), and then "permissive codes" which cities can choose to adopt or not (or adopt in part, etc....).

For example in GA:
https://www.dca.ga.gov/local-government-assistance/construction-codes-industrialized-buildings/construction-codes

(Some States don't do this method of mandatory codes, and leave it all to the local governments, but this is rare, Texas is the only State I can think of offhand that does this). (There are no Federal Building or Construction codes in America, States have complete room to decide what if any codes are mandatory or permissive).

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