TWI Certification Ltd has implemented new policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have moved to social distancing and work from home measures, cancelled all personnel examinations, and are providing extensions to certification expiration and examination dates for certificates expiring between March 1 and June 30, 2020. The policy outlines specific extension timeframes for various certification schemes and encourages certificate holders to submit renewal applications early.
TWI Certification Ltd has implemented new policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have moved to social distancing and work from home measures, cancelled all personnel examinations, and are providing extensions to certification expiration and examination dates for certificates expiring between March 1 and June 30, 2020. The policy outlines specific extension timeframes for various certification schemes and encourages certificate holders to submit renewal applications early.
TWI Certification Ltd has implemented new policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have moved to social distancing and work from home measures, cancelled all personnel examinations, and are providing extensions to certification expiration and examination dates for certificates expiring between March 1 and June 30, 2020. The policy outlines specific extension timeframes for various certification schemes and encourages certificate holders to submit renewal applications early.
TWI Certification Ltd has implemented new policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They have moved to social distancing and work from home measures, cancelled all personnel examinations, and are providing extensions to certification expiration and examination dates for certificates expiring between March 1 and June 30, 2020. The policy outlines specific extension timeframes for various certification schemes and encourages certificate holders to submit renewal applications early.
End date: To be decided (TBD) dependant on UK Government and WHO recommendations, as well as the developing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe. Further updates will be published to the Personnel Certification website here, as and when they are available.
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In light of the current circumstances, and as of Thursday 19 March 2020, TWI CL has moved to social distancing and working from home strategy, as well as restricting travel to business critical only. These actions are mirrored across the world in light of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result, all personnel examinations have been cancelled.
This is an unprecedented event in the history of TWI CL and the CSWIP brand, and as such, extraordinary measures have had to be introduced to maintain our candidate’s effective certification.
In response to the current global situation TWI CL have, in line with UKAS Technical Policy Statement TPS 621, and the International Accreditation Forum’s (IAF) IAF ID 3 procedure2, sought approval to deviate from normal procedures for affected certificates, in line with other Certification Bodies.
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Personnel Certification CSWIP and BGAS-CSWIP
The extraordinary measures have been outlined within this section are applicable only to those whose certificates expire or examination dates occur between 01 March 2020 and 30 June 2020. The situation will be continuously monitored and these dates will be reviewed and revised as appropriate.
Group A Certification Schemes: Welding: Inspectors, Supervisors, Instructors, Examiners, Quality
Control Coordinators, Technical Representatives; Review of Welding Procedures; Heat Treatment; NDT: Inspectors, Operators and Interpreters; BGAS-CSWIP, Plant Inspectors; Cathodic Protection; Visual Inspectors for Upstream Oil and Gas; Protective Coatings; Plastic Welding Inspectors; Blasting and Painting Operatives.
1. Candidates whose CSWIP or BGAS-CSWIP certificates are at the ten-year recertification
point, are able to apply for a six (6) month extension to their certificates validity. Please complete this form and return to the office for processing, you will be informed by email if your application has been successful.
2. Candidates, who are due to sit their retest examinations, may apply for a six (6) months extension to take their tests. Please contact TWI CL via [email protected] to request an extension.
3. Candidates may now submit their renewal and recertification application forms via email.
4. Candidates due to sit their second retest on their CSWIP Welding Inspector may apply for three (3) more months to take their test. Please contact TWI CL via [email protected] to request an extension.
Group B Certification Schemes: Underwater Inspector 3.1U; Underwater Inspector 3.2U; ROV Inspector 3.3U; Underwater Inspection Controller 3.4U
1. Certificates due to expire between the aforementioned dates may have their validity extended for six (6) months and may be allowed up to six (6) months extra time to sit their recertification examination. Please complete this form and return to the office for processing, you will be informed by email if your application has been successful.
All other renewals and recertification’s, outside the dates provided above, will be processed as per standard operating procedures.
At this stage, we kindly ask all certificate holders for their patience and understanding as we are working with a skeleton staff. We encourage all certificate holders who are due their documentary review to submit at their earliest opportunity (up to six (6) months prior to the certificates expiry) to ensure that their certificates are renewed in time, as these are NOT subject to the above extenuating measures.
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TWI CL would like to reassure all our clients, both UK and overseas, that we are dedicated to maintaining their certification and will continue to work with them, our governing bodies, and HMG to ensure we do this while maintaining the health and safety of our staff, clients and the wider public.
