About SELECT
SELECT is the trade association for the electrical contracting industry in Scotland.
With its foundation in 1900 as The Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland, SELECT became the first trade association in the world to serve the electrical industry. Leaving aside the ancient trades, that makes SELECT amongst the oldest of the "modern" trade associations.
Today, there are over 1200 Members of SELECT each one working to our stringent membership criteria.
SELECT Members have capability across a wide range of design, manufacturing, testing and commissioning skills and each is accredited to one or more of ten technical disciplines.
SELECT Member companies account for 90% of all electrical installation work carried out in Scotland, have a collective turnover of £1 billion and provide employment for 15,000.
SELECT represents the industry
As the authoritative trade association for the electrotechnical industry, SELECT helps to shape the market environment. By representing the industry to government, SELECT influences legislation to create industry conditions which enable Member firms to both provide a quality service to their clients and operate profitably at the same time.
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The representative function involves the influencing of local and central Government (including the European Commission); involvement in setting and monitoring industry standards (such as BS7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations) committees); negotiation in industrial relations and in the contractual, technical and regulatory fields.
SELECT is synonymous with high quality work
From its beginnings, SELECT has led industry standards and we continue to ensure that work carried out by Member companies is of the highest quality, employs the best of modern technology and, above all, is safe.
Membership of SELECT give clients confidence that they are dealing with a quality contractor backed by a Code of Practice, Contract Completion Guarantee and customer complaints service.
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Membership of SELECT gives clients confidence that they are dealing with a quality contractor backed by a comprehensive range of guarantee schemes, a Charter on client complaints and a Code of Conduct with disciplinary procedures built in.
SELECT members can join Constructionline, the UK's largest register of pre-qualified construction services. It streamlines procedures by supplying the construction industry and its clients with a single national pre-qualification system.
SELECT members are entitled, also to display the Construction Licensing Executive's influential "Licensed to Trade" logo which gives householders peace of mind in that they using a reputable contractor.
The latest addition to SELECT's marketing and specification opportunities for members is a BSI Kitemark Licence (BS 7671 – Requirements for Electrical Installations). SELECT is the only electrical trade association to be offered partnership with BSI and reinforces the high esteem in which our membership criteria are held.
SELECT is committed to training and to lifelong learning
From our headquarters at The Walled Garden, near Edinburgh - a Scottish Qualifications Authority Approved Centre in its own right - SELECT offers comprehensive training across a range of industry technical and managerial skills.
At any one time, SELECT Members are training over 3,500 apprentices - more Modern Apprenticeships than any other industry in Scotland.
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The Walled Garden is also the headquarters for Summit Skills (the Sector Skills Council for the electrotechnical industry), and the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (the industry's managing agent for Modern Apprenticeships).
At any one time, SELECT Members are training over 3,500 apprentices - more Modern Apprenticeships than any other industry in Scotland.
Management skills are provided through our HNC in Contracting Management. This is provided at Lauder College both by Part-Time attendance and Distance Learning.
Members can demonstrate safety awareness and competence through SELECT's Electrotechnical Certification Scheme Health & Safety Course. Participants who successfully complete the course assessment will be awarded a certificate which can be used to update their current ECS card.
Through participation in the Scottish educational and training establishment, SELECT works to ensure that vocational training standards and delivery continue to meet the industry's requirements for the future.
SELECT provides Member services
In its role of service provider and communications facilitator, SELECT provides a broad range of services and benefits to Members including advice on technical issues, health & safety and employment law.
Advice is only a phone call away.
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SELECT offers advice to members on human resources and employment law, technical issues, health, safety & compliance, and contractual and legal matters. This activity also includes a technical inspection service.
Corporate and personal benefits include a credit reference service, Directory of Members, documentation, welfare benefits, social activities, discounted insurance and access to export information and benchmarking.
Valued communications media include regular local meetings, our monthly 'Newsletter' and 'Cabletalk', the industry journal published by SELECT, which serves the whole electrotechnical industry.
Advice is only a phone call away.
