The International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing

The competence of those carrying out NDT is an essential pre-requisite for the achievement of quality and reliability. Qualification and Certification of NDT personnel in accordance with International Standards such as ISO 9712 (Non-destructive testing – Qualification and certification of personnel) and aligned standards helps to ensure that people are competent and assists global business and safety standards.

The ICNDT, with a track record of 45 years in international co-operation in NDT, is dedicated to supporting best practice in the implementation of these standards and to this end has published its 'Guide and recommendations for qualification and certification of NDT personnel according to ISO 9712'.

The Guide was updated in April 2012 in preparation for the meetings held at the World Conference on NDT in Durban, South Africa.

At each World Conference, the International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing (ICNDT) presents awards to people and organisations that have made major contributions to NDT.

The winners are chosen by secret ballot of the members of the ICNDT Policy and General Purposes Committee, from nominations submitted by member societies.

There are five awards:

• Roentgen Award for major contribution to the science and technology of NDT
• Pawlowski Award for major contribution to the promotion of NDT internationally
• Havercroft Award for major contribution to NDT education, training or certification
• Sokolov Award for major contribution to NDT research
• ICNDT Young Achiever Award for achievement of young people in NDT (<35 years)


The 2012 winners are:

Roentgen: Award shared between Professors Peter Cawley and Michael Lowe (combined nomination); and Professor Teruo Kishi   
Pawlowski: Mr Douglas J Marshall
Havercroft: Mr Patrick Fallouey and Dr Hajime Hatano (combined nomination)
Sokolov: Professor Chris Scruby
Young Achiever: Award shared between Dr Alexey Efimov and Mr Christopher Lane

The worldwide industry has for some years sent strong messages to the ISO and CEN Technical Committees (TC) requesting that harmonisation between the two standards dealing with certification of NDT personnel be undertaken in order, if possible, to provide industry with a unique standard, resulting in a unique system of NDT personnel certification being applied worldwide.

• creation on the ISO and CEN side of relevant groups in order to study the differences between the two standards and make proposals for a unique text.
• “common” meetings of these two groups for this study (two have already been held).

Keynote lecture at the 10th ECNDT Moscow, June 2010
by Dr Mike Farley
Chairman ICNDT and Director, Doosan Power Systems, UK