education & TRAINING
The Institute is concerned with training and endorses a range of short modular corrosion courses at a number of UK universities and training centres which can be used to qualify for professional membership of the Institute. Currently ICorr is looking at how the provision of training through National Vocational Qualifications NVQs and Distance Learning can be best harnessed.

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ICorr Certification Scheme
The international certification scheme for the training and certification of painting and coating inspectors, cathodic protection technicians and personal performing inspection or testing in related fields.
The following certification is available:
Painting Inspector Levels 1,2, and 3
Cathodic Protection Technician Levels 1 and 2
Pipelines Coatings Inspector Levels 2
Metallic Coatings Inspector Levels 2
Insulation Inspector Levels 2
Fire Proofing Inspector Levels 2
The scheme was brought about because of the manifest lack of uniformity in abilities and inconsistencies in the approach of many of the newcomers to painting inspection.

Major clients and specifiers of protective treatment projects increasingly were looking for tangible assurance that inspectors' training and abilities matched their claims set out in their employment applications.

What was needed on an international scale was a comprehensive, consistent and structured training programme embracing all the essential aspects of the various disciplines within the fields of protective treatment inspection and based on ISO, EN and other international standards rather than merely company or national standards of limited geographical applicability.

This needed to be linked to a system of certification of inspectors who had demonstrated, in examination, that they had absorbed both the theoretical and practical training sufficiently to be qualified to one of the various levels.

The ICorr scheme amply satisfies the above needs and aligns to the requirements of EN 45013 - General criteria for certification bodies operating certificate of personnel.

The training and examinations are carried out regularly throughout the UK, in the Middle East and Malaysia but can be undertaken anywhere by arrangement.

The administration of the scheme is overseen by a governing board which includes ICorr directors. The board is responsible for the review and auditing of both training and examination standards and for the issue of certificates to the successful candidates.

The main beneficiaries of the scheme are the customers and employers of painting inspection, where ever they may be, because they now have access to a growing resource of certificated, regulated individuals whose competence to the level of their certification may be relied upon.

The other main beneficiaries are the certificated inspectors themselves because they possess world-recognised, validated evidence of their training and competence.

ICorr has an open policy towards the scheme and endeavours to make it clear to all concerned as to what is involved and what has been achieved by the holder of certification.

Examination marks achieved are shown on Certificates of Achievement issued, the reverse side of each certificate lists the operations, duties, etc in which a certified individual has demonstrated competence.

The requirements for experience, training, examinations, etc are fully detailed in the ICORR REQ DOC - Requirements for the Certification of Personnel Engaged in Painting and Coating Inspection.

Cathodic Protection and Related Fields. The appendices to this document are available separately and contain syllabuses for both training and examination:
Painting Inspector Appendix A
Cathodic Protection Technician Appendix B
Pipelines Coatings Inspector Appendix C
Metallic Coatings Inspector Appendix D
Insulation Inspector Appendix E
Fire Proofing Inspector Appendix F

Copies of the ICORR REQ DOC and the appendices along with detailed information regarding the scheme, training and examination may be obtained from:

The ICorr Test Centre
Psalter Lane
Rotherham
S61 1DL
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 1709 560 459
Fax: +44 (0) 1709 740 813
Email:enquiries@ruanetpo.com