Anyone else have to educate people on the AWS certification process regularly? People, my certs are not expired, use the AWS cert checker online!
I spent time out of my day again today trying to convince someone reviewing welder's certs that were over 3 years old that the welder is still certified and the WPSs are still good even though my stamp was expired on his documents. I even sent a picture of my renewed wallet cards and now they(contractor) want the welder bring his documents back to me to re-stamp....Nope, ain't gonna do it. Nothing wrong with the documents that are in his possession. I was certified at the time that the documents were written, and continuity logs that the welder has kept (weekly)shows that his continuity has never lapsed from the time I gave him the test several years ago. I told the welder to tell the contractor to call AWS and let them explain to him why the documents are still good, I'm sick of educating people on this process.
I've been a CWI for almost 20 years now so there are a lot of documents with an expired CWI stamp on them, so I guess that's why I get all of these calls. Never had a problem until those pesky dates got added several years back. I was resistant to using the new stamps because I could see these questions coming before I got the first call, but I caved in. I know it was to keep the shady CWI certs to a minimum, but its been a pain for the rest of us.
OK, rant over