Free lesson · 4 minutes 47 seconds
Lesson 1: Why weld maps exist
The first lesson of the weld mapping module. Put your email on the Tier 1 list and it opens right away, with the Weld Field Sheet to print.
Get lesson 1 freeFDQ Tier 1 · Opens Wed Nov 18
Tier 1 is an online course for hands with no quality background. It teaches the work of a contractor QC tech or an owner-side junior inspector, on the right-of-way and inside the fence.
You already know what good work looks like. Tier 1 teaches the records that prove it, the ones a QC tech keeps every day. A few of them:
Number every weld, repairs, cut-outs and tie-ins included, so no number is ever used twice. Tie each one to its station, pipe, heat numbers, welders, WPS and NDE.
Build the log from a day of field data, reconcile it against the pipe tally, and audit someone else's log for errors.
Number and tag every bolted joint, convert target torque to pump pressure from the tool's chart, check the pattern and passes, and keep the torque record that signs each joint off.
Make sure you're working the current revision, deal with a superseded copy, read transmittals and status codes, and handle redlines.
Carry a nonconformance from finding and tagging to closure. Write the NCR with the requirement, what you found, where, and the evidence, with no blame.
Read an MTR and check it against the spec, transfer heat numbers before pipe is cut, and quarantine material you can't trace.
Read and write an inspection and test plan line, and know what the crew may do at each hold, witness and review point.
Build a test package and work out the test pressure at the high and low points of the section.
For welders, helpers, operators, laborers and foremen who want the quality side of the job. You don't need a quality background or a CWI to start. It covers gas and hazardous liquid lines and their stations, under 49 CFR 192 and 195.
Free lesson · 4 minutes 47 seconds
The first lesson of the weld mapping module. Put your email on the Tier 1 list and it opens right away, with the Weld Field Sheet to print.
Get lesson 1 freePipeline and facilities QC, from how a job runs to running a QC day: the work of a contractor QC tech or owner-side junior inspector.
Opens Wed Nov 18For working QC inspectors and quality engineers who run quality on an active project.
Coming soonFor quality managers and directors who build the program a whole project works in.
Coming soonI started as a field inspector, holding the weld log on the right-of-way, and I've worked quality on pipeline, LNG, compressor station and industrial jobs since.
The best quality hands I worked with came up through the crew. FDQ is the course I wish someone had handed them: what the job actually is, what the paperwork is for, and how to do it so the crew still respects you.