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#documentation
5 topics across all disciplines.
Reading a WPS and a PQR — what is on the sheet and what the tests proved
The practical document skill — what each field on a welding procedure specification is for, what a qualification record actually recorded, and what tensile, bend, impact, macro and hardness results each demonstrate about the joint.
Inspection and test plans — hold, witness, review, and who signs
What an ITP actually is, how it is built line by line from the code and the specification, what each of the four intervention levels obliges, why a document full of hold points is worse than a short one, and the notification failure that turns a witness point into nothing.
Non-conformance and corrective action — the four dispositions, and why NCRs repeat
Writing an NCR somebody can act on, the difference between rework, repair, use-as-is and reject, who may grant a concession, and why closing non-conformances one at a time without ever raising a corrective action guarantees the same defect next week.
Pressure test packs and reinstatement — the gate, and what gets put back afterwards
What a test pack contains and why it is built as the work proceeds, the procedure and the calibrated gauge, the falling pressure that is temperature rather than a leak, and the reinstatement register that is what actually keeps a tested system honest.
Site records and the daily diary — writing for somebody who will not believe you
Why the site diary is the most valuable document a supervisor produces, what distinguishes an entry that is evidence from one that is worthless, what to record every day regardless, and why contemporaneous matters more than detailed.