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DISCOVER EDUCATION OPTIONS IN WELDING
Taking your first step into welding requires practice and dedication; and, once qualified, there are a surprising number of further skills with which you can advance your welding career, many of which won’t break either your patience or your bank balance.
LEARN TO WELD
A hub of further welding education options is Learn to Weld. This division of Weldability Sif is built around a team of dedicated, experienced, qualified welding instructors and industry professionals, providing training courses designed to teach you quickly and efficiently. Most of their training courses take place in their Technology & Training Centre, which is an EAL-approved qualification centre in Letchworth, Herts. This fully equipped training facility creates the perfect learning environment for mixed groups to train in a comfortable, modern setting.
GAS EQUIPMENT INSPECTION Learn to Weld provide a popular 2-day BCGA CP7 Gas Equipment Inspection Course. It enables those with a fundamental understanding of the Oxy/ Fuel Gas Welding process to inspect portable Oxy/Fuel cutting and welding gas equipment in accordance with the Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and the British Compressed Gases Association Code of Practice 7 (BCGA CP7). For any user or reseller, CP7 inspection and certification is a valuable skillset to call upon, and can prevent serious safety risks.
Unlike other training providers, whose
improve their technical knowledge in welding practices, welding inspection, metallurgy, compliance and quality control, in order to serve as Responsible Welding Coordinator or as Welding Coordinator, operating to ISO 3834.
A WORLD OF TRAINING, FROM LEARN TO WELD
courses have to be refreshed annually, this course will certify you for 3 years. If you are already certified, the one- day Refresher Course covers those who have been certified to other schemes within the last 3 years, looking to renew their certification and convert to the Weldability Sif Scheme.
WELDING COORDINATOR COURSES Learn to Weld also regularly deliver a recognised, professional Responsible Welding Coordinator training course, providing a Level 4 Award and Certificate of Verifiable Achievement from EAL, who are the awarding body operated by SEMTA (The Sector Skills Council for Engineering and Manufacturing). This 1-week course, which is available throughout 2018, is suitable for welders, managers, supervisors, inspectors and quality-control personnel in the structural fabrication sector who are looking to
For resellers’ commercial staff, an Introduction to Welding Processes, Equipment & Consumables course is provided. This one-day intensive course explains the basic process principles, equipment and consumables for all the main welding and cutting processes. The course attendees will use each of the processes to understand their functionality and applications, to help engage with their clients with greater understanding. Processes include MIG, TIG, MMA, FCAW, Plasma and Oxy/Fuel. Learn To Weld’s main weekly programme delivers the Level 1 Award Welding Qualification Suite. A series of intensive, hands-on welding process qualifications, developed to train proficiency in the practices and techniques of welding. Learners can choose from MIG, TIG, MMA, Oxy/Fuel Brazing & Soldering and Thermal Cutting. These programs can be delivered modularly, and as an employer-led framework, to enable flexible training around candidates’ work commitments. All of the above courses are available in 2018 over various dates or on demand – to find out more visit
www.learn-to-weld.com or call 0845 130 7757 today.
Technical advice in the original SifTips style was started in 1932. ‘Sifbronzing’ is an almost universally recognised way of describing the low temperature bronze welding of sheet steel, cast iron and other metals. This explains why Sifbronze, the company which first developed and promoted the technique, is generally considered to be a supplier of high quality welding rods, wires, fluxes and equipment. ‘Will the Welder’ was a SifTips magazine that was produced in the early 1930s. The aim
was to provide users with ideas and tips on how to get the most out of their welding equipment.
Sif is renowned for its UK manufacturing heritage as well as its complete range of quality welding consumables used globally for almost a century.
WELDING WORLD MAGAZINE | ISSUE 02 | APRIL 2018
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