Certified CSWIP Welding Inspection Programme

This scheme covers the same ground as its American counterpart and gets there differently, with more weight on the practical examination and on the inspector's physical method. That is the emphasis here. A candidate is assessed on finding what is there, measuring it correctly, and writing it down so another inspector could follow, under time, with the specimens in front of them. The week covers processes, consumables and discontinuities as underpinning knowledge, then spends its second half on specimens and reports. The examination is sat with the certifying body, and preparing properly for it is the only thing a programme can honestly offer.

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.

• Apply a repeatable visual method before, during and after welding.
• Identify and measure surface discontinuities with the correct gauges.
• Judge a weld against an acceptance criterion rather than against experience.
• Produce a report another inspector could act on without speaking to you.
• Sit the examination knowing what each paper is testing.

Welding inspectors preparing for the examination, QC personnel in fabrication and construction, supervisors responsible for weld quality, and welders moving into inspection.

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 visual inspection sequence practised to the point of habit.
• Completed specimen reports marked against the examination standard.
• A revision plan built from your own marked work.

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.