• Ensures compliance with the high-quality standards required
• Based on exams defined according to standards and/or codes
• A team composed of international certified welding inspectors, and welding engineers
• Extensive national and international experience

OBJECTIVES

• Determine the aptitude and capability of a welder/operator
  welding
• Verify that the welder can perform welds within the scope of these
  standards
• Whether the instructions in the welding procedure specifications are
  to be fulfilled and with the required quality

Welding Procedures are carried out in according to various standards, and for the same qualification, destructive testing is required and not destructive measures to check whether the specified is complied with.

EQS is an Accredited Inspection Body (IO), a European Notified Body (NoBo) for the Directive of Pressure Equipment (PED 2014/68/EU), conducting independent inspections, verification of design and approval of personnel and procedures for welding.

EQS CERT as a Personnel Certification Body, within the scope of the EN ISO/IEC 17024 standard, provides the following certifications:

• Fusion Welding Operator
• Operator who performs definitive joints
• Brazers and brazing operators
• Welder and Welding Operator
• Welder: Fusion Welding – steels
• Welder: Fusion Welding – Aluminium and aluminum alloys
• Welder: Fusion Welding – Copper and copper alloys
• Welder: Fusion Welding – Nickel and nickel alloys
• Welder: Fusion Welding – Titanium and titanium alloys, zirconium and
• zirconium alloys

EQS CERT guarantees the provision of the activity of personnel certification in a non-discriminatory way, ensuring the absence of any circumstance that restricts or prevents the access of candidates to certification, provided that they meet the requirements for such.

EQS CERT’s Top Management is committed to establishing and maintaining impartiality in the provision of services as a Personnel Certification Body, through its Management Commitment.