Why choose registered?

It’s safer – we at the Electricity Safety Council strongly recommend you use a qualified electrician who is registered with a government-approved 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.

In the past five years, there have been nearly 1.2 million significant injuries reported (excluding mild pains and unspecified conditions), and 200,000 hospital admissions annually2.

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 qualified 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.
  2. 1024 adults aged 18-65 in Great Britain who have personally experienced an electric shock that resulted in injury while at home or in the garden in the past five years, including all those who experience one or more of the following injuries: skin burn without scarring, severe pain, bruising from a fall or severe muscular contraction, persistent pain, numbness, difficulty in breathing, heart-beat disturbances or irregularities, skin burn with scarring, higher blood pressure, deep tissue burn, broken bone(s), angina, temporary blindness, cardiac arrest.