Corporate membership

For fabricators, inspection companies, training providers and suppliers. Named seats at member rates, one invoice, and a route to getting your welders and supervisors certified without doing the paperwork one person at a time.

Who it is for

Steel and pressure fabricators who need certified welders and a certified supervisor to satisfy a specification or an audit
Inspection and NDT companies whose staff work to the Australian welding standards daily and need them at hand
Training providers delivering welding qualifications
Equipment and consumable suppliers whose technical staff work alongside fabricators
Asset owners and maintenance organisations with in house welding

What is included

Named seats. A number of individuals in your business hold membership under the company account, each with their own login and their own certification record.
Member rates on certification for every named person. This is the reason most companies join. If you are certifying several welders, the arithmetic gets very simple very quickly.
One invoice, one renewal date. Rather than reimbursing individual memberships through expenses.
The full technical library for all named seats.
Recognition as a corporate member.
A starting point on AS/NZS ISO 3834. Ask AWI which level is appropriate for your work and what it will take. What ISO 3834 actually requires.

Corporate membership covers a named group of people at one organisation. Ask AWI what the current inclusions are, and how many seats suit the size of your shop.

Fees are quoted on application. Ask us for the current schedule. Ask about corporate membership.

Why a fabricator ends up needing this

Three requirements arrive together and they are usually noticed in the wrong order.

The specification wants certified welders. AS 1796 in the welder qualification clause, in the category matching the work. Solvable per welder, and slow if you do it one at a time.
The specification wants certified supervision. AS 2214 for structural work, AS 1796 for pressure work. Harder to solve quickly because the theory takes time. Supervisor certification.
The client wants the company assessed. AS/NZS ISO 3834, often arriving through a construction category under AS/NZS 5131. This one takes months, because the quality system has to be used before it can be audited.

The mistake is to deal with them as they appear in the tender. Deal with them in reverse order, starting with the supervisor, because the supervisor certification is on the critical path for the company certification and the theory cannot be compressed.

What your clients can check

Every certificate held by your people is on a register that your client can check with a certificate number and a surname, without contacting you. That has two consequences worth understanding.

The first is that your certification claims are checkable, which is a competitive advantage against a competitor whose certificates cannot be checked at all.

The second is that they are checkable by anybody, including auditors, at any time. Lapsed certificates show as lapsed. That is the point of the system, and it means renewal has to be managed rather than assumed. Renewal.

How the register works, and what a client can check.

Your apprentices

AWI membership is free for apprentices and full time students. There is no reason for a corporate seat to be spent on an apprentice, and a good reason to get every apprentice signed up in their first year: the technical library, and a certification discount waiting for them when they finish their trade. Student and apprentice membership.

Corporate membership and sponsorship are separate. Membership gives your people credentials and access. Sponsorship supports the Institute’s technical and certification work and carries recognition with it. Sponsorship does not buy influence over a certification decision, and AWI publishes an impartiality policy precisely so that is not a matter of trust. Governance documents.

Talk to AWI about either.