TIG or Stick Welding Training Course - Technical Training Solutions

The Welding Skills course is focused on individual company’s requirements. This course is provided on-site and is designed to provide candidates with the ability to produce welds safely and to industry standards.

The course is aimed at supervisors, technicians, maintenance engineers and any personnel involved in equipment maintenance. The course is designed for candidates with some welding experience, although it can be customised to suit all skill levels.

Classroom-based training is provided so that candidates understand the type of welding applications required by their employer. The course advocates the industrial health and safety best practices. The course incorporates an intensive practical section on welding. Candidates are provided with comprehensive course notes, describing welding best practices and other essential information.

On completion of the course, participants will be able to:

Safety is our first consideration on the Arc Welding course. We look at the required PPE, how eye and face protection should be achieved and how cylinders should be looked after. We ensure that the candidates have understood these very important H&S issues by administering a practical assessment, where they have to describe the various PPE that would be required in various situations.

We then introduce the candidates to our arc welding sets, familiarizing them with the various parts.

Our course notes have introductory information and descriptions on the various types of welded joints and once the candidates have understood the key issues we start welding. The practical side of the course is where our emphasis lies and of course where the candidates will really begin to learn. The following are some examples of the practice welds that candidates make on the course:

During the course candidates gradually become more proficient with our welding sets. We teach how the sets should be set up, what all the controls do and can even offer help and advice on how their own welding sets should be set up and used.

Once the candidates have acquired the basic skills we can then introduce more complex issues like weld penetration, welding positions and controlling distortion.

There is no substitute for practicing welding, so our course continues with more and more welding. We re-visit the H&S and PPE issues on an on-going basis. We don't expect the candidates to become fully-fledged welders on such a short course, but we do expect them to be able to lay a proper bead whilst taking all the appropriate safety measures, so that they can do small jobs like fix broken parts of machinery, adapt a chain guard, etc.

We also expect the candidates to be able to recognise a good weld from a bad one. We test some of their own welds to demonstrate weld penetration and we emphasise the very important health and safety issues associated with welded parts like ladders, railings etc.