Be very careful about this.
We have a project ongong in Toronto. Procedure qualification under the CWB must be monitored by a representative of the CWB.
Even if you find that "AWS" procedures and welder performance records are acceptable to CWB, there may be other factors that influence the overall acceptability of your program.
One example that comes to my mind is this: The shop inspector (from a Canadian NDE firm) believed that in order to use procedures qualifed in accordance with AWS standards, the shop would have to be a certified AWS facility, or the procedures would have to be certified by AWS (no prequalified procedures allowed on this project).
Since our role in the project is prime contractor to the Canadian shop, the issue did not really apply. However, it did cause me to re-evaluate assumptions that I had previously made (like AWS is acceptable to CWB).
Hope I'm not confusing the issue.
Charles
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