African Fusion June 2015

SAIW bulletin board

At SAIW’s first graduation dinner for 2015, over 130 students celebrated successfully completing SAIWcourses, ranging from IIW Welding Specialist and Welding Technologist courses to Inspection Level 1 and/or Level 2 qualifications. Inspection, certification and remai ni ng aligned with health and safety standards and your license to practice depends on this compliance,” he asserts. Citing his experiences as a young in-

spector, Joubert urges the young gradu- ates to respect the experience of their supervisors. “But alignment cannot only rely on supervision. Mostly, it depends on you being disciplined individuals. Make sure you have read the PER, the applicable welding or repair codes and the health and safety standards. Unless you have the code next to you, you are not following the aligned path. Lets uphold the legal requirements. We owe it to our clients and customers, who pay for our services. Let’s remain aligned,” Joubert urges. Startingwith thewelding co-ordina- tion programme, Sean Blake, the new SAIWexecutive director, began to award the certificates. “We are going to begin with our IIW welding coordination pro- gramme,” begins Blake. SAIW offers IIW WeldingPractitioner, Welding Specialist, Welding Technologist and IIW Welding Engineer qualifications. “Tonight we are awarding diplomas in two of these categories, Welding Specialist and Welding Technologist. “This the group of peoplewill be responsible formanag- ingwelding processeswithin fabrication environments according to schemes such as ISO3834. They require specialist knowledge of welding engineering and the control of welding processes, and when things gowrong, these specialists have the knowledge to rectify issues that are creating problems,” Blake informs. In total 12 Welding Specialists re- ceived diplomas, with a further four graduates receiving IIW Welding Tech- nologist qualifications.

D elivering themotivational address, TZ Joubert, chairman of the SAIW Inspectors Committee and SAPREF inspection manager talked about the functional responsibilities of inspec- tion personnel and the need to “remain aligned”. “Unfortunately in industry, we fre- quently come across cases where our inspectors and QC personnel are not aligned with the Pressure Equipment Regulations (PER), health and safety standards (OHS Act) nor with the com- pany’s own quality system standards. “Training from SAIW is a first step in making sure that we remain compliant within our inspection function, whether those are weld inspection functions; welding supervisor functions, welding engineering or welding technologist functions. All of you have now been trained to fulfil one or more of these functions within a company’s quality system,” Joubert points out. “But we regularly come across inspectors who ‘take the law into their own hands,” he continues, “by allowing pressure tests that are not code compli- ant, for example, or by not attending seminars to keep abreast with the latest Pressure Equipment Regulations – part of the current SAIW requirements for ongoing registration. “Becausewe represent the industry, the regulator, AIAs or manufacturers, we have responsibilities. We all have an obligation to maintain and to comply

TZ Joubert, chairman of the SAIW Inspectors Committee and SAPREF inspection manager.

Welsh Philip Moller Wienand receiving Inspector Level 1 and Level 2 diplomas along with the IIW Standard Level Welding Inspector certificate from SAIW president Morris Maroga.

At SAIW’s first graduation dinner for 2015, over 130 students celebrated successfully completing SAIW courses.

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June 2015

AFRICAN FUSION