Welding Inspection

IMTE Training Institute Pvt. Ltd. – A world class Welding inspection course and certification institute in Faridabad, India serving clients & participants from over 12 branches.
Welding inspection course is intended for personnel with experience in welding inspection, welder training or welding supervision, who are wishing to consider a formal inspection certification route. The course content highlights the key theory areas to be covered and also provides a practical element. IMTE Training Institute Pvt. Ltd. is a leading professional institute for welding inspection course in Delhi NCR, India for its training and certification programs.

• Welding processes
• Consumables
• Procedures
• Welding defects
• Specifications
• Specification analysis
• Mechanical testing of welds
• Cutting and joint preparation
• Basic steel metallurgy
• Heat affected zone
• Pre-heat and post heat
• Weld repairs
• Weld symbols
• Practical exercises
• Examination Syllabuses

We strongly advise that all candidates take the 5 day course option and allow at least 4 days revision time before attempting the available Weld Inspector examination options. Whilst any candidate can attend this course, examination criteria may exist in terms of experience and we strongly recommend that prospective candidates read in full the ASNT relevant documentation. *This course is also ideal to support the mature candidate route into CSWIP

This course is aimed at experienced welding inspectors who hold approved weld inspector status in an appropriate certifying scheme i.e ASNT or equivalent. The course is designed to review, reinforce and develop the additional subject required for the Weld Inspector Level 2 approval.

• Technical and supervisory qualities required
• Quality Assurance
• Auditing
• The content of NDT reports (theory and practical)
• NDT - capabilities and limitations
• Assessment of fracture samples
• Review of all welding/senior welding inspector examination syllabuses
• Steel metallurgy
• Crack mechanisms
• Welding symbols
• Consumables
• Practical exercises
• Examination Syllabuses

This course is intended for personnel with or without experience in welding inspection. It is preferable, but not essential, for applicants to be experienced in the welding, engineering or pipe/pipeline industry.

In addition to general theory, the course analyses the contents of relevant standards including British Gas TransCo specifications applicable to pipeline welding.

• Welding processes
• Consumables
• Procedures
• Welding defects
• Specifications
• Mechanical testing of welds
• Radiographic interpretation
• Joint preparation
• Heat affected zone
• Pre-heat and post-heat
• Weld repairs
• Hot tap welding

Special Notes


There is only one grade of Pipeline Welding Inspector. The Back-end Welding Inspector approval is now obsolete. The current BGAS-CSWIP Pipeline Welding Inspector approval has replaced the Front-end Welding Inspector approval.