Course Overview

This course is an updated Welding qualification to include the latest fabrication and welding techniques, materials, processes and practices, assessed in line with industry demands, which include updated rigorous practical assessments and online on-demand assessments.

The qualification structures have been developed with the typical learner in mind, to ensure the units contained within them are relevant and facilitate progression, whether that is onto higher levels of learning, employment or specialist fabrication and welding procedures.

The qualifications have been developed in conjunction with academia and industry experts and informed by the work of professional bodies in the fabrication and welding field.

The course will raise a learner’s skill level and enhance their underpinning knowledge to promote progression from basic welding and fabrication skills to a more highly developed understanding of equipment functions and how materials behave when subjected to fabrication and welding process. It will also educate the learner in the observation of the correct and safe procedures that are paramount in the fabrication and welding industry.

Units of study include:

• Health and Safety in a Fabrication and Welding Environment – T/618/0753
• Materials, Science and Calculations for Fabrication and Welding Practice – D/616/1291
• Manual Metal-Arc Welding – (Vertical) Low Carbon Steel – H/618/0764
• Metal-Arc Gas Shielded Welding – (Vertical) Low Carbon Steel – M/618/0766
• Tungsten-Arc Gas Shielded Welding – (Vertical) Low Carbon Steel – F/618/0769.

Learners will be expected to wear the following mandatory PPE/RPE in the BTC workshops when carrying out welding activities:

• TIG/MMA welding gloves
• Leather apron
• Head mounted welding screens
• Air fed welding screens (Loaned and available on a first come first served basis)
• Safety glasses
• Ear plugs
• Safety boots
• Proban overalls
• A P3 Respiratory protection which protects against welding fumes.

PPE/RPE which is brought in by learners for use in our workshops will be checked to ensure it is suitable for welding related activities.

Assessment Methods

Learners can choose whether or not they wish to work towards achieving the ABC Awards in Welding and Fabrication or to just acquire the welding and fabrication skills without taking the qualification. To achieve the ABC qualification learners will be primarily assessed in the form of practical tests. Each process is assessed via two weld tests along with an accompanying basic theory test.

Progression Options

Learners who successfully achieve this qualification could progress into employment within a fabrication and welding environment or a manufacturing environment, or progess to Level 3 Pipe Welding Standard.