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With great support from our new Standards Australia Project Manager (Engagement Officer), her efforts to ensure we maintain traction with all developments and voting, the systems have improved greatly which will allow MT007 to bring further developments to you at a quicker rate.
As we can see in industry, a lot of changes are continually taking place within material manufacturing processes, fabrication and welding, accreditation schemes, training and certification schemes with many organisation specifications calling on ISO or USA Standards. At present, it can be seen that these International Standards will continue to be ramped up across many industry sectors which most likely will greatly impact NDT.
The MT007 Committee was bolstered by David Padfield, an expert in the field of Acoustic Emission. There have been an extensive amount of AE Standards being developed by the ISO Committees and David will certainly be kept busy reviewing these Standards and providing the necessary feedback to all members.
We also welcome to the Committee, Ali Hadigheh from the University of Sydney who has diverse experience in Non Destructive Testing and
MT007 held a meeting on the 9th February 2023 with the main items covered and responses to the proposals are as follows
• To adoption of ISO 3452.1
• To adoption of ISO 3452.2
• To adoption of ISO 9712 Current Version.
• Review adoption of EN 4179
• The addition of University of Sydney to Stakeholders. At the APCNDT Conference held in Melbourne a number of Open Panel Q&A sessions were held where Standards was represented very well with Paul Grosser, Keith Arcus and myself present, however unfortunately I could only attend the first Q&A session but with second session also well represented all questions could be answered with other members from MT007.
Further ballots were held regarding ISO Standards being developed and as they progress through the ISO Committees. They were as follows.
1. NDT – MT007
ISO/FDIS 18251.2 - Infrared thermography - Test method for integrated performance of system & equipment
ISO/DIS 24367 - Non-destructive testing - Acoustic emission testing - Metallic pressure equipment.
2. Con Mon – ME087
As I indicated in the previous Standards News, the information and details regarding the ME087 Committee is no longer available to me www.standards.org.au/news/standards-australia’snew-public-comment-platform-launched Please contact me using the details below if you have any questions or require further information and I will reply at the first opportunity.
We do bring to everyone’s attention, to make public commenting easier and simpler for both commenters and committees, Standards Australia has launched a new public commenting platform through the contributor portal, Connect. You can register on the portal and make comment following the below link.

Angelo Zaccari MT007 Standards Chairperson azaccari@aben-tech.com.au