Minnesota Radon Rules Good discussion. This is how things get rolling. Adam, we too offer discounted services and in some cases free services.
My point is, there has to be some way for bad actors to be addressed. Someone who is a repeat offender, in my mind moves through the process of being a civil offender, to a criminal offender. With my one "Stupid" example, think how far backwards the radon industry could be thrown, had I not seen and called out the abborhant way that system was installed. I have hundreds, possibly thousands of pictures showing other trash, garbage, dangerous systems.
What if the homeowner was in the crawl space doing their due diligence inspections, looking for things that needed to be addressed and got killed by electrocution from their radon system? Or the house burned down and the entire family was killed? Can you see the headline "Radon Mitigation Systems Dangerous and May Kill Homeowners!" How adversely would that affect our industry?
To say that an industry, that at it's roots, is a Health Care Industry, shouldn't be regulated in some fashion, TO ME, is irresponsible. In Virginia last year there was a push to deregulate X-Ray technicians! Do you want to be the person in that deregulated office? I should hope not.
To say that no matter what you do there will be bad actors, is true enough. However that's not to say we should remove licensure from Doctors, some do commit malpractice. CDL Truck Drivers still have accidents which kill people. Why bother with building inspections when there are still shoddily built homes? It'll never be an exact science and the folks on this board are probably not the problem. It's the folks that don't care enough to be professionals that will adversely affect us all.
I have had many clients over the years ask, "what does it take to do radon testing or mitigation?" When told, they ask in many cases, Why plumbers and electricians have an apprenticeship program but radon folks just do their 24 hours of CE Credits and become "Experts", while plumbers, electricians and now, in Virginia, Home Inspectors have to do real life field work under the tutelage of a licensed home inspector, instead of trying to become an instant expert after 2 or 3 days of studies? To the general public, it doesn't seem to make any sense. It's a really valid question.
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