On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:16:38 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/15/16 1:14 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 12:16:09 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Continuing education to maintain credentials or licenses is part of
"being on your own".

I am in that situation myself with my inspector license but it is
somewhat a scam to generate revenue for the CEU providers. I
understand that some people will not actually do any learning on their
own and they need a minimum level of competence but I could teach the
courses I have to go to because I do keep up with code changes and new
products on my own. I usually take all of the CEUs acceptible out of
my specialty, just so I can learn new things. I took the SREF course a
few years ago (State Requirements for Educational Facilities). It was
an eye opener.


That's really too bad that you're being scammed by CEU providers.

It is all part of the NGOs who develop standards for profit. I am
surprised that is not one of your causes. NFPA did get spanked in
"Veeck" for not providing free access to standards that are adopted as
public laws so you can see them for free now in a limited use PDF.
(like NFPA70 the national electric code). They still sell plenty of
$100 books.
U/L still holds most of their standards back since the language itself
is not adopted as law. You can look in the white book to see what
listing numbers apply to each product but the details of the testing
and the standard they test to is expensive to see.