Our personnel are selected based upon their experience and education in the field of NDE as well as intangibles including reputation for integrity. We have an excellent in-house training program that each new employee undergoes prior to be assigned to the field. Once in the field,  personnel are mentored by senior staff until they have gained the necessary qualifications for the program to which they are assigned.

SGS PfiNDE personnel are qualified and certified in accordance with the American Society for Non Destructive Testing (ASNT) document SNT-TC-1A.

Several of our Level III’s are nationally certified by ASNT

Many of our people are qualified by AWS as Certified Welding Inspectors

SGS PfiNDE has a full time “Compliance Manager” who is a retired pipeline engineer. He administers the safety program and is one of the people that handle our OQ training and tracking.

Personnel are qualified for the applicable tasks through NCCER. We subscribe to ISNETworld so that those qualifications are available to our customers instantly. . We also have a program with Veriforce for these same tasks.

Our drug and alcohol testing program is administered by Pipeline Testing Consortium and has been accepted by many pipeline operators. NCMS has also approved our program for some clients.

SGS PfiNDE has provided to various clients all of the following services:

• Project Management
• Inspection Techniques
• Oversight of NDE performed by others
• Procedures for examination
• Personnel qualification services
• Equipment selection and qualification
• Inspection Personnel
• QC personnel for repair and replacement activities
• Data base updates and/or management
• Welder qualification services