The Italian Electrotechnic Committee (CEI) has been studying and proposing the rules, which now standardize the electric and electronic sector, for nearly a hundred years. This is the first sector that chosen to give itself a precise regulation to define the borders of work done ‘job well done’ and to safeguard the safety of installers as well as users. CEI’s contribution, extremely qualified, is important and especially constant in time, to regulate a sector of great and fast technological development.Besides the work on the regulations, the CEI lately has been doing more.
"Studying and proposing regulations is our mission and it has always had dedicated our greatest energy - Enrico Comellini, CEI chairman, explains - , however we have realised that all this is not enough, we also need to inform operators about the existence of all the new regulations produced and train installers for their best application ".
What are the subjects, in particular, you are working on for the training of operators?
We have concluded a very important training cycle on works under tension, in particular on the aspects relative to replacement of the old counters with the electronic ones set for the reading. These are courses we have held in cooperation with ISPES, UNAE, CNA and Confartigianato, and which have seen the giving of 1800 participation certificates. Other topics we are working on are: electric machinery, bids organised at the interested companies and the calculation of electric and magnetic fields, in relation to the regulations partly already issued and which certainly be issued again, especially if we consider the great attention the information medias and public opinion are dedicating to the subject (commonly included in the term electro smog).
As well as operators, you also take care of contributing to young people’s training in the schools?
Of course we do. For some time we have been working and collaborating with Technical and Professional Institutes with great satisfaction. In more recent times we have started, on the other hand, to have important contacts with Universities. I consider this type of activity very important with youth. Up to a few years ago, but partly still now, many young people finished their cycle of studies without even getting to know the CEI and its activity, inevitably discovering it after they entered the professional world. Even in this case we are working to invert this tendency.
In this imposing and important divulgation work, how much are the new technologies helping you?
Very much so. By now 45% of our regulations are diffused through the instruments made available by the new technologies: cd-roms and the Internet. On this subject I would like to underline, admitting a touch of pride that us Italians have been among the first in Europe to propose the regulations on a computerised support. The commitment we are dedicating to our Internet site is also very important. In the month of March 2001 it reached the record level of four hundred thousand accesses.
