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Needs and challenges in health, safety, education, training, qualification and certification
Figure 6.1
The Welding Coordination Team concept in Australia (Reproduced courtesy: WTIA)
This could be an excellent model for developing countries to modify for their own use.
6.4.2
Use of IT and Communication technologies
Use of IT and communication technologies has been key to welding and joining industries support and
technology transfer activities of IIW member organisations. Of course, with the growth of the internet,
electronic communication has assumed greater importance among a mix of methods for transferring
technology. These methods may be:
Through experts (staged sequences of activity: enquiry, product and process review, feasibility
study, R&D project).
Through people (staff transfer, secondments, postgraduate training partnerships).
Through networks (collaborative projects, virtual enterprise networks).
Through licences and on-line.
Structured knowledge base and enquiry service.
Computer based services have a long history at some institutes. For example, at TWI these range
chronologically through; Weldasearch literature database from the mid-sixties, technical software for
welding engineers from around 1980 and training multimedia from the early eighties, JoinIT on-line
information and advice service from the mid-nineties.
Outlined below are some of the stages of development of this key service, which now plays a significant
role as a source of information and knowledge across welding, joining and materials engineering. It is thus
Projects, Estimating,
Planning, Purchasing
and Contracts
Personnel (WC)
WTIA qualified
personnel
Stores Personnel (WC)
WTIA qualified personnel
Leading Hand (WC)
IIW Certified International
Welding Practitioner (CIWP)
Maintenance
Personnel (WC)
WTIA qualified personnel
Welder (WC)
WTIA AS 1796 Welder
Certificates 1-9;
national or international
qualification codes
Welding
Supervisor (WC)
Certified WTIA:
AS 1796 Certificate
10 (
PE);
AS 2214 (Structural steel)
Welding Inspector (WC)
WTIA Certified:
Comprehensive Welding Inspector (CCWI)
Senior Welding Inspector (CSWI)
Welding Inspector (CWI)
Fabrication
Inspector (WC)
WTIA Certified Senior
Welding Fabrication
Inspector (CSWFI)
NDT Personnel
(
WC)
AINDT certificated
personnel
Responsible Welding Coordinator (RWC)
IIW Certified:
International Welding Engineer (CIWE)
International Welding Technologist (CIWT)
International Welding Specialist (CIWS)
WTIA WHS Welding Coordinator (WHSWC)
WTIA Environmental Welding Coordinator
(
EnvWC)
WTIA QC Welding Coordinator (QCWC)
Designer (WC)
IIW International Welded Structures Designer,
Standard or Comprehensive level
