Role of a BER Employer
Where an Employer (partnership, company or public body) offers BER assessment services to clients via Employees who are registered Assessors, certain obligations in the Code of Practice can be assumed directly by the Employer as opposed to the Employee BER Assessor. SEAI has established a procedure to enable the Employer of a BER Assessor to enter into a direct relationship with SEAI in respect of the following obligations:
- Indemnification of SEAI in respect of liabilities arising as a result of Employee BER Assessor’s activities;
- Payment of registration fees and/or levies for registration of a BER Assessor and for publication of BER certificates issued on behalf of the Employer; and
- Retention and maintenance of all records, data and documentation as would be required to defend, should they be questioned, assessments carried out by the BER Assessor on behalf of the Employer. Records, data and documentation must be stored in a secure, confidential and accessible manner as required in the BER Assessor’s Code of Practice.
