A servicing licensee holds a licence to test and verify measuring instruments used for trade, such as shop scales, weighbridges and fuel dispensers. It can employ verifiers, or nominate contractors, to verify under its licence, and it reports each verification to the National Measurement Institute (NMI).
OpsChase for trade measurement verifiers is built for servicing licensees and their verifiers.
What a servicing licensee must do
NMI lists the core responsibilities. A servicing licensee must:
- Make sure its verifiers, including contractors nominated under its licence, hold the statement of attainment for each instrument subclass they verify
- Tell NMI about changes to its verifiers, within 14 days of someone starting, leaving or changing their details
- Use reference standards that have a current Regulation 13 certificate
- Maintain a quality management system (QMS), which NMI reviews at licence renewal and may audit on site.
Each verifier marks every instrument they verify with the licensee’s verification mark.
The paperwork behind each job
Each verification is reported to NMI on Form 6 or Form 6A within 14 days, with test reports for complex instruments such as weighbridges over 3 tonnes. The regulations also require written notice to the instrument’s controller, and copies of these notifications kept for at least three years.
Licence subclasses
Licences are issued for classes and subclasses of instrument. Subclass 6.4, for example, covers weighing instruments over 3 tonnes, and 10.1 covers liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dispensers. NMI publishes a list of servicing licensees, by subclass, that have agreed to be listed.
How OpsChase helps a servicing licensee
OpsChase keeps a job and instrument register for every customer site, test sheets for each licence subclass, Form 6 and 6A exports, a 14-day lodgement board, a reference standards register and each verifier’s registration number, statement of attainment and subclasses, so the team can check who is qualified before booking. Field apps work offline. OpsChase is independent software and is not made or endorsed by NMI. Read about the 14-day rule next.
On OpsChase: one queue for your team and contractors, follow-up when a job goes quiet, and photos or sign-off before it closes. Book a demo — one site or many.
- Can a contractor verify under someone else’s licence?
- Yes. NMI says a verifier can be an employee or a contractor of the servicing licensee, and contractors who hold their own licence can still be nominated under yours.
- What training do verifiers need?
- A statement of attainment for the licence subclass of each instrument they verify.
- Is OpsChase made or endorsed by NMI?
- No. OpsChase is independent software built for servicing licensees. Forms still go to NMI through its normal channels.