ASME IX Welding, Brazing and Fusing Qualifications

A weld is only as sound as the procedure behind it and the person holding the torch, and ASME IX is the code that says how both are proved. Most of the trouble it causes is not technical. It is that a procedure gets copied from another job, an essential variable moves without anybody noticing, and the qualification that was supposed to cover the work does not. This week works through the structure of the code and then through the paperwork that carries it: the procedure specification, the qualification record behind it, and the performance qualification of each welder. The emphasis falls on the variables, because the variables are where qualifications quietly lapse.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Navigate ASME IX and find the clause that governs a given question.
• Write a welding procedure specification that is complete and defensible.
• Read a procedure qualification record and judge what it actually supports.
• Separate essential, supplementary essential and non essential variables, and know which force requalification.
• Qualify a welder, and track the continuity that keeps that qualification alive.

Welding engineers and supervisors, QA and QC inspectors, fabrication and workshop managers, and mechanical engineers who approve or audit welding documentation.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A drafted procedure specification for a real joint, checked against the code clause by clause.
• A review of an existing qualification record, with the gaps listed.
• A welder continuity register you can run from the week you get back.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.