That is what being a team is all about IMO. To get eachothers back and help one another out looking after one another. Without knowing all the facts, it's hard to know what happened (obviously). Speaking from my own experience, I am the only CWI on site where I work, and I have alot of ground to cover. In the busyness of the day, things get crazy, as I'm sure we all know, but yes, occasionly things will be missed, or bad judgement may occur. I would welcome the opportunity to work with another CWI, just for the sake of having a second set of eyes, and perhaps a different point of view. I would look at it as learning experience.
Jason
I know of this matter. The Inspector called undercut on the welder and the welder buffed the undercut out, but missed a lil bit on the back side of the gate valve. and the Inspector missed it as well. the inspector was taking care of several different jobs at the same time helping out another Inspector by checking on the gate valves as well as the structure that was being done, being the other inspector was stuck on the other side of the yard double jointing pipe and could'nt be in two places at once due to the pace of the double jointing. During the inspectors day of family vacation he was told he was to be removed from the quailty team because he missed alot of undercut, but after the inspector spoke with the welding foreman and the welder and several other people that witnessed the (undercut) it was said to be a very small amount that could have been missed, and it was made to sound like the grand cayon but it could have been fixed by a small amount of buffing. but it was to late by then because the inspector was already terminated from his job, without a chance to even ask about the situation. and the inspector was told a totally different story. So much for team work. sounds to me like it was everyman for him self.