IIW White Paper

6 Needs and challenges in health, safety, education, training, qualification and certification

Projects, Estimating, Planning, Purchasing and Contracts

WTIA WHS Welding Coordinator (WHSWC) WTIA Environmental Welding Coordinator ( EnvWC) WTIA QC Welding Coordinator (QCWC)

Responsible Welding Coordinator (RWC) IIW Certified: International Welding Engineer (CIWE) International Welding Technologist (CIWT) International Welding Specialist (CIWS)

Personnel (WC) WTIA qualified personnel

Designer (WC) IIW International Welded Structures Designer, Standard or Comprehensive level

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)

NDT Personnel ( WC) AINDT certificated personnel

WTIA Certified Senior Welding Fabrication Inspector (CSWFI)

Welder (WC) WTIA AS 1796 Welder Certificates 1-9; national or international qualification codes

Stores Personnel (WC) WTIA qualified personnel

Leading Hand (WC) IIW Certified International Welding Practitioner (CIWP)

Maintenance Personnel (WC) WTIA qualified personnel

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

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Through Optimum Use and Innovation of Welding and Joining Technologies

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