Why choose registered?

It's safer – we strongly recommend you use a electrician who is registered with a government-authorised scheme. Safety is the most important factor when carrying out any electrical work at your home.

The UK has a comparatively good record of electrical safety, but it doesn’t stop around 2.5 million adults getting an electric shock every year1.

Properly installed and well-maintained electrics can save lives – including yours. So it’s important that people who work to exacting standards carry out your electrical work.

A registered electrician will work to the UK national standard and when they’ve completed the work will issue you with a safety certificate. In technical language this means the work has been designed, constructed, inspected and tested in accordance with the national electrical safety standard – BS 7671. To you it means it’s safe.

It's easy to make an electrical circuit work – it's far harder to make the circuit work safely. That’s why it’s better to use a registered electrician.

All of the government-approved scheme operators have a complaints procedure. They investigate any complaints about registered electricians who have not complied with the appropriate technical standard.

1 Conducted by Ipsos MORI using a nationally representative quota sample across Great Britain. The results have been weighted to reflect the known profile of the adult population in Great Britain. Based on a confidence interval of +/- 3.5% and the sample size of 809 the actual number could vary between c1.3 and 4 million adults aged 15+. Electric shock is defined as a mains-voltage electric shock rather than a static shock of the type a person might get from a car, for example.