Welding Qualifications
Welder Qualifications are essential for welders working in modern manufacturing and engineering environments.
The industries of today need to be kept up to date with the latest welding techniques and standards.
Professional welding qualifications are often needed for safety reasons.
Stay up to date with the latest welding standards by coming to Darren Blakemore for a professional service.
The following qualifications and welder certificates can be gained from our training.
The standards we cover include:
EN 287, ASME IX, ISO 24934, CAA, ISO 24394, BS 4872.
For non-welders that work alongside skilled welders, we provide welding appreciation courses that can help you to understand how the process works in more detail.
We offer a free site visit and consultation and we are able to create a bespoke course to suit the needs of your company.
Welding Qualifications carried out on site or
at your works all in 1 day.
For details of welding procedures we certify please go to our Welder qualifications page.
NWQS - Zurich Approved Centre
NWQS LTD is a registered Approved Centre for carrying out the witnessing of permanent joining on behalf of Zurich (see a copy of our approval certificate below). These witnessing services include witnessing for both the initial Weld Procedure Qualification testing and also for subsequet Welder Approval testing for individual Welder Qualifications to saidprocedures.
On completion, the test pieces are the sent to a Laboratory for Testing in accordance with the appropriate ISO or ASME standard and the results are reported back by Zurich on ISO 1.7020/1.7025 compliant certification.
CSCS Welders Card Renewal Process
NWQS LTD can issue the relevant skill cards for welders under the new CSCS card scheme.
Welding Knowledge Test
Zurich will issue CSCS Welders Card once successfully completed
Pre-test Requirements
The welding knowledge test can be carried out when the following are in place
CITB Health & Safety Certificate
Current Welder Approval from NWQS
Welder Performance & Procedure Qualification
NWQS Ltd can independently witness and verify welding procedure qualification tests, once completed these are taken from site and submitted for testing.
We also offer full RWC (Responsible Welding co-ordinator support up EXC4)
Full UKAS Witnessing is available
This allows us to witness Welding Procedure and Welder.
Qualification tests for work to be used under the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) category.
Our comprehensive and independent third party inspection services operate Worldwide. All of the work that we perform is in accordance with National, European and Internationally Recognised Standards.