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	To make sure you can find them! You probably spend a huge amount of money each year looking - but how sure are you of finding those critical flaws? Our specimens can be custom made to replicate your site specific welds and can contain known flaws of your choice. You can conduct practical demonstrations to ensure your NDT equipment, procedures and personnel are good enough to find and size them. As part of your risk assessment consider the cost of missing a critical flaw - then give us a call and check how much it would cost to drastically reduce that risk

	Consider this Most Level II NDT technicians where trained and became qualified by demonstrating their practical skills on simple ‘generic’ specimens (generally only carbon steel) Qualifications are typically taken in ‘class room’ conditions. Most NDT procedures and equipment have probably never proven their ability to actually detect a ‘known’ flaw Trials have proven that 50% of Level II technicians fail subsequent practical tests. So how much are you paying for and what risks are you taking by using that NDT technician who has proven his skills once in a class room on a simple carbon steel specimen and has only a 50% chance of passing next time. How good is the equipment & procedure he is using.

So what do you do next First take a tour of our web site learn about Sonaspection and the range of flawed specimens we offer. Second consider which of our products is best for you. We have something for every level of NDT - from the very beginner to the most advanced. By using our flawed specimens you can:-

		Train operators to make sure they can consistently detect, identify and size flaws Give confidence to the operators by allowing them to practice on components similar to those on site which contain know flaws Conduct meaningful site specific qualification to give confidence to you and your organisation that work is being carried out with proven technicians, procedure and equipment. Build up a bank of operators who have site specific qualifications and make sure they are employed for future inspections.