About the Authors
Roger Lovegrove’s extensive experience in the electrical contracting industry spans over 50 years.
He served an apprenticeship, worked as an electrician and contracts engineer and then managed
his own business for 18 years. Having left electrical contracting, he became a consultant
specialising in inspecting, testing and surveying electrical installations. For a number of years
he delivered lectures for ECA and IIE on various topics associated with BS 7671, the IEE
Wiring Regulations. He is a Fellow of the IET and serves on the joint IET/BSI Wiring
Regulations Committee. For many years an ECA member, he has served on the association’s
technical committee. Also, he has represented UK electrical contracting interests on International
and European electrical installation standards working groups.
Gary Gundry is one of the UK’s leading electrical safety trainers and presenters. Working at the
Electrical Safety Council (ESC), he primarily produces technical guidance material for the
electrical industry and safety literature for consumers. He also serves on one of the four
committees responsible for the technical content of the Wiring Regulations (BS 7671);
accordingly, he is able to speak authoritatively (to audiences of any number) on the requirements
of the Seventeenth Edition of the Wiring Regulations.
Prior to working at the ESC, Gary was a Senior Engineer at NICEIC Training delivering bespoke
training courses all over the United Kingdom, and before that he worked in the Standards
division on, among other things, the NICEIC’s Technical Manual.
Before joining the NICEIC in 1999, he was a Director and Qualified Supervisor of an electrical
contracting business enrolled as an NICEIC Approved Contractor.
Gary began his career as an apprentice with SEEBoard, and later joined Eastern Electricity.