Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

The grading criteria for detection and sizing of flaws;
The acceptance criteria for detection and sizing; and
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12. Surveillance Programmes
Special requirements where applicable (i.e. Time limitation, access restrictions,
environmental conditions, etc.).
Upon successful qualification of an NDT procedure and associated equipment, the
qualification body issues a certificate to the licensee and/or inspection organization
clearly identifying the aspects of the procedure and equipment, which were qualified.
Certification of an NDT procedure and associated equipment is indefinitely valid unless
changes affecting essential variables and/or parameters are made respectively, to the
equipment and/or procedure, or to any mandatory document whose requirements must be
met.
Responsibility for the ultimate approval of an NDT inspection system remains on the
operating organization on the basis of the evidence provided by the qualification body as
a result of the qualification process.
12.3.8. Personnel certificates
For each successful candidate, the qualification body issues separately to the inspection
organization, a personnel certificate that is complementary to the national certificate. The
validity of a personnel certificate is limited in time. Personnel certificates are invalidated
when a certified individual ceases to work for the inspecting organization which
presented him/her for qualification, or when the inspection organization cannot produce
documentary evidence of continuous satisfactory involvement of its certified individual