Certification for Australian welders and fabricators
AWI certifies welders and welding supervisors against Australian Standards, and certifies steelwork fabricators to AS/NZS 5131. Every certificate goes on a register, so an employer can check it rather than take your word for it.
Checking someone’s welding ticket?
You need the certificate number and the holder’s surname. Both are printed on the certificate and on the wallet card. Printed and PDF copies of certificates should not be relied on: the register is the record.
How to have a certificate checked, how AWI certificate numbers work, or what the register is.
Certification paths
Three schemes, each mapped to a recognised Australian Standard. All three are progressive: you build on what you already hold rather than starting again.
Welders
The welding tickets. For experienced welders working on boilers, pressure vessels, pressure piping and other high quality welded applications in plain carbon steel, low alloy steel plate and pipe.
Welding supervisors
For experienced welding personnel who plan, staff, monitor and deliver welding work. Certification gives your customers guaranteed competence in the supervision of welding, not an assumption of it.
Why join AWI
Membership of the AWI gives you access to nationally and internationally recognised certification and education schemes, a large collection of technical resources, and a national organisation whose objective is the advancement of the Australian welding and fabrication industry.
The arithmetic works
The member discount on certification is larger than the membership fee. Join to get certified and you are ahead, not behind.
A real technical library
Standards explainers written for the shop floor, free to everybody, plus the deeper technical library for members.
Free while you learn
Apprentices and full time students pay nothing, and the certification discount is waiting when they finish their trade.
Your certificate is checkable
Every AWI certificate carries a number and goes on the AWI register. The register is the record, and that is worth more to your employer than the paper is.
Getting into welding, and moving up
Written for the person deciding, not for the person selling the course. Nothing behind a form.
How to become a welder
Four realistic routes in, and what a welding ticket actually is.
The apprenticeship
The training contract, how long it takes, how you get paid, and how to find an employer.
Welding supervisor
Off the tools and accountable for other people’s welds.
Latest from the library
Welder qualification is not procedure qualification
Two different things get called a welding qualification. One qualifies the person, one qualifies the method. Confusing them is the most common reason welding documentation gets rejected.
AS/NZS 1554 explained
Weld categories SP and GP, the seven parts, prequalified procedures, and which part actually applies to a fatigue loaded structure.
AS/NZS ISO 3834 explained
Why welding needs its own quality standard, how to choose between the three levels, and the welding coordinator requirement that decides most assessments.
The welding apprenticeship explained
The training contract, competency based completion, what to check before you sign, and the two things worth doing in your final year.
About the Australian Welding Institute
The Australian Welding Institute is a not-for-profit body representing the interests of the Australian welding and fabrication industry.
AWI acts to support members in their business rather than encroach on it, by creating a network that disseminates technical information for the benefit of the membership, and by providing nationally recognised qualifications and certification for welding related personnel.
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