Hello everyone, I have a question about welding certificates that must be signed every six months by the employer because I have not found a job for six months and my certificates are not signed, can you advise me what I can do now with this
You'll be certified to a company's WPS, unless you have your own procedures in your own name, or a welding school. You can't take another company's procedures, so your "codings" would be invalid anyways. All you can do is prove to another company that you have been coded in the past, and get re-tested to their procedures.
IF you have procedures, then you need a witnessed weld test again, it will go for radiography.
@Mid Wales welder knows the score
OK thx I'll be think about test but I don't know where to do it now I live in Bournemouth and I can not find the test companies here I know about SETA courses for industry at Southampton but the welding stuff is on thurlow[/QUOTE][Hello, I did a private welding training on tig en ISO 9606 which entitles me to welding pipes and sheets and separately training for stainless steel
QUOTE="zzr1200, post: 1658746, member: 1944"]Presumably find employment and take the test again, I would suggest...not helpful I know.
Sorry, but I can't see way around the problem, unless you re-cert/retest yourself....
Hello everyone, I have a question about welding certificates that must be signed every six months by the employer because I have not found a job for six months and my certificates are not signed, can you advise me what I can do now with this
ISO 9606-1:2017
9 Period of validity
9.1 Initial qualification
The welder's qualification begins from the date of welding of the test piece(s), provided that the required
testing has been carried out and the test results obtained were acceptable. The certificate needs to be
confirmed every 6 months otherwise the certificate(s) become(s) invalid.
The validity of the certificate may be extended as specified in 9.3. The chosen method of the extension of
qualification in accordance with 9.3, a) or b) or c), shall be stated on the certificate at the time of issue.
9.2 Confirmation of the validity
The qualifications of a welder for a process shall be confirmed every 6 months by the person responsible for
welding activities or examiner/examining body. This is confirming that the welder has worked within the range
of qualification and extends the validity of the qualification for a further 6 month period.
This subclause is applicable to all options of revalidation specified in 9.3.
9.3 Revalidation of welder qualification
Revalidation shall be carried out by an examiner/examining body.
The skill of the welder shall be periodically verified by one of the following methods.
a) The welder shall be retested every 3 years.
b) Every 2 years, two welds made during the last 6 months of the validity period shall be tested by
radiographic or ultrasonic testing or destructive testing and shall be recorded. The acceptance levels for
imperfections shall be as specified in Clause 7. The weld tested shall reproduce the original test
conditions except for thickness and outside diameter. These tests revalidate the welder's qualifications for
an additional 2 years.
c) A welder's qualifications for any certificate shall be valid as long as it is confirmed according to 9.2 and
provided all the following conditions are fulfilled:
the welder is working for the same manufacturer for whom he or she qualified, and who is
responsible for the manufacture of the product;
the manufacturer's quality programme has been verified in accordance with ISO 3834-2 or
ISO 3834-3;
the manufacturer has documented that the welder has produced welds of acceptable quality based
on application standards; the welds examined shall confirm the following conditions: welding
position(s), weld type (FW, BW), material backing (mb) or no material backing (nb).
which one applies to you?
if it is A or B, you can have a test made and to research .
you place the report on your renewal list.
I hope you have it or you have to request it from your previous employer. and have it signed by someone authorized to do so.
see in the ISO 9606-1 comment
P.S. the FM group wire is important, you must weld with wire within these FM groups.
I assume you can weld in FM1 and FM2