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Coating Inspections – Review and Preparation Of Inspection Documents (Part 1) Massimo Cornago NACE International Certified Coating Inspector, NACE CIP PEER Reviewer cornago@ipcm.it
F
ollowing the previous indications about the figure of a Coating
methods and acceptance criteria to be used. In this plan, the main
Inspector, we have to understand which documentation a Coating
inspection points should be identified, for example:
Inspector has to use during a “Coating Work Project”, taking into
• Examination, measurements and test to be conducted
consideration two main types of documents:
• Verification and acceptance criteria for any individual test • Mandatory inspections surveillance points, witness points and hold
• Documents associated with the specification detailing the work to be
points
done by the applicator, including the specific inspection requirements:
• Methods for documenting inspection findings
“Work Plan”, “Quality Control Plan”, “Safety Plan”, Other Submittals” and
• Methods to identify conformance or rejection of work in process
“Pre-Job Meeting Report”.
(Standards)
• Documents prepared by the Inspector to document the work accomplished by the applicator: “Purpose of Inspector’s Documentation”, “Items for Inspection Documentation”, “Inspector Plan”, “Completing Inspector’s Daily Reports”, “Documenting Deviations from Specification” and “Documents after the Job is Completed”. In this article, named Part 1, we focus the attention on the first part of the documentation, which is “documents associated with the specification”. In the next one, named “Part2”, we will discuss all the documents that a Coating Inspector has to prepare.
A. Work plan In order to provide “details” on “how the required work will be accomplished”, the job specification (or work specification) writer may require the applicator to submit a “Work Plan” that mainly includes: “Materials to be used”, “Manpower and Equipment to be used” and “Job Schedule”. Most job specification defines what is to be achieved, avoiding descriptions of the working methods to be used. When working methods are described in the job specification, there could be the risk that the method specified will not produce the required result, leading to an inevitable dispute between the parts involved in the process and potential litigation.
B. Quality control plan The owner requires the preparation of a “quality control plan” giving indication to the Coating Inspector of how the inspection is to be performed, including a very detailed description of equipment, test
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