A month ago I was required to provide a "Continuity Record" for API 1104/1107 work, from a state corporate commission. ?????????? Figgur that one out.
Then required by a prime's third party QA company to provide a "welder certification update letter". OK.
Clark County NV requirement:
http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/development_services/Industry%20Notices/2010%20Industry%20Notices/welder_qualification_record.pdfCaltrans work has much harsher requirements (unless you're a china fab co.), field work there goes way beyond anything in D1.1 or D1.5.
So in many cases (all of mine evidently) there are requirements in place that exceed anything AWS (or API) ever thought of, and they are enforced with gusto.
So we keep detailed continuity records (or whatever the governing body in place likes to call them this year), just so we can walk on the job. It's the (one of many) price of admission.
J