ASME BPVC 2023 Section IX

NONMANDATORY APPENDIX L
WELDERS AND WELDING OPERATORS QUALIFIED
SIMULTANEOUSLY TO EN ISO 9606-1, ISO 14732,
AND SECTION IX ð23
L-100 INTRODUCTION
When a welder or a welding operator welds a test
coupon or makes a production weld, that person does
not weld one way when the applicable standard is
ASME and another way when the applicable standard
is AWS, EN, JIS, or ISO. Recognizing this, recent revisions
by ISO TC44 to ISO 9606-1 and ISO 14732 bring them
much closer to the requirements of Section IX. This Appendix
describes the requirements for qualifying welders or
welding operators simultaneously to the above ISO standards
and Section IX.
This Appendix is based on the requirements of ISO
9606-1:2012, EN ISO 9606-1:2017, and ISO 14732:2013.
L-200 ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS
The following nontechnical requirements must be met:
a A welder or a welding operator shall follow a
welding procedure.
b Welding of the test coupon shall be done under the
full supervision and control of the organization. This
responsibility shall not be delegated.
c Personnel performing supervision, control, evaluation,
and acceptance of qualification activities shall meet
the criteria specified in QG-106.
d Testing of test coupon may be performed by others,
but the qualifying organization is responsible for ensuring
that work performed by others is in compliance with the
requirements of Section IX.
e The completed qualification record must be certified
by signature or other means described in the organizations
quality program by the organization that
supervised the welder or welding operator during
welding of the test coupon.
L-300 TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
The qualification record must record the essential variables
for the welding process and list the ranges qualified.
While the “actual values” recorded on the test record will
be the same as for a test record prepared according to
ISO 9606-1 or ISO 14732, the ranges qualified will be
different for a record prepared according to Section IX.
Care should be taken to select material used for the test
coupon from those that are assigned a P-Number under
QW-420 and filler metals that are assigned F-Numbers in
accordance with Table QW-432 in order to ensure full
interchangeability with other materials that are assigned
P-Numbers or F-Numbers.
Since the forms may be in any format as long as the