La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § XCIX-5703

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024

Section XCIX-5703 - Industry-Based Certification and Academic Content Standards

A. Scope. The American Welding Society (AWS) guide establishes a minimum skill standard defining training and qualification requirements that are necessary for participating organizations to develop and administer an Entry-Level Welder Program in accordance with AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders. This guide is intended to specify a credible path for secondary, postsecondary, or employer-based training facilities to build new programs and/or enhance existing programs to administer Entry-Level Welder training and qualification. Use of this guide is voluntary. Participating organizations desiring to certify a trainee as an AWS Certified Entry-Level Welder shall consider the training and qualification guidelines within this Subpart 7 as mandatory requirements under the requirements of AWS QC10.

B. Objectives

1. Provide training facilities with an industrial awareness of the occupational description, conditions, task listing, and profile that encompasses the job classification of entry-level welders.

2. Establish a broad competency-based curriculum detailing the minimum acceptable skill requirements for the training and qualification of entry-level welders.

3. Provide training facilities participating in the certification of entry-level welders with a list of learning objectives and learning activities necessary to accomplish entry-level welder training.

4. Provide training facilities participating in the certification of entry-level welders with the references needed to compare existing or new curriculum with the AWS documents specified in this guide.

5. Provide training facilities participating in the certification of entry-level welders information related to the administration of an entry-level welder closed book examination, workmanship qualification, and performance qualification testing.

C. Requirements

1. Unless the secondary, postsecondary, or employer-based training facility elects to become a participating organization under the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders, use of this Part 7 is voluntary.

2. Participating organizations shall meet the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders.

3. Participating organizations shall ensure that existing or new training materials are in compliance with the AWS documents specified in the Curriculum Guidelines section of this guide.

4. Participating organizations shall administer a safety examination prior to trainee performance of tasks in the work area or laboratory, in accordance with the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders.

5. Participating organizations shall administer workmanship qualification testing at the end of training for each applicable welding or cutting process in accordance with the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders.

6. Participating organizations shall provide a means for trainees to take a closed book written examination based on the applicable subject matter.

7. Trainees desiring AWS Entry-Level Welder Certification shall pass workmanship qualification tests in accordance with the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders.

8. Trainees desiring AWS Entry-Level Welder Certification shall pass a closed book written examination based on the applicable subject matter.

9. Trainees desiring AWS Entry-Level Welder Certification shall pass performance qualification tests in accordance with the requirements of AWS QC10, Specification for the Qualification and Certification for Entry-Level Welders.

10. Participating organizations shall keep training records reflecting the results of entry-level welder training, workmanship qualification, closed book examination, and performance qualification.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § XCIX-5703

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Trade and Industrial Education, LR 30:2771 (December 2004).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.