Committees

Contractor & Industry Standards

 The Contractor & Industry Standards committee undertakes to develop the accepted definition of what makes a qualified electrical contractor and works with other stakeholders to develop standards of safe and professional electrical installations.

Electrical Contractor Registration Agency and Provincial Licensing

 The Contractor & Industry Standards committee undertakes to develop the accepted definition of what makes a qualified electrical contractor and works with other stakeholders to develop standards of safe and professional electrical installations.

Standard Practices

ECAO is working with the Council of Ontario Construction Association’s (COCA’s) construction lien act committee to develop amendments which will, among other things, ensure that the Construction Lien Act covers industrial process work.  The committee gets involved in other standard practices issues as well, including combating reverse auction tendering, promotion of bid depository to the provincial government and maintaining relations with Infrastructure Ontario.  ECAO makes the payment issue a priority and assigns the responsibility for education, research and policy development to the Contractor & Industry Standards Committee.

ESA Relations

Maintaining relations with ESA is one of the more important roles of the Contractor & Industry Standards committee.  The Contractor & Industry Standards committee supports ECAO representatives on a number of ESA committees and councils.  The Contractor Advisory Council (CoAC) is comprised of thirteen industry representatives, including ECAO.

In addition to managing the relationship between ESA and the electrical contracting industry, the CoAC recruits contractor representatives to sit on various ESA committees including the Ontario Provincial Code committee, the Fee Restructuring committee and Appeals Tribunals.

As noted above, the ECAO also participates in both the ECRA Board and ECRA Master Examining Board.

Practices & Policies

ECAO Statement of Policy Regarding Standard Practices
	Policy - Standard Documents
	Policy - Standards and Integrity
Pre-Tendering and Tendering Issues
	CCA Standard Contract Documents
Construction Contract/Contract Management Issues
	Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC)