Fusion Welding - EFJLP1

Assessment Information

Candidates with limited or no experience of manual welding processes wishing to learn skills; maintenance staff required to install plastic fabrications; welding engineers unfamiliar with these processes; engineering apprentices.

Course Content

Introduction to common thermoplastics (MDPE, PVC, PP, PE, PVDF) including:

• Key processing techniques
• Joint preparation
• Defects and how to avoid them
• Process control
• Inspection and testing
• Health and safety
• Practical electro-fusion welding in polypropylene or polyethylene pipework.
• to understand practical welding - electrofusion (up to 65mm OD)
• to identify plastics materials to implement procedure control and safe operation
• to understand weld properties
• to identify faults and defects and how to avoid them

Course Duration

• 1/2 a day

• You will need to bring with you

• Candidate name and address
• Candidate National Insurance number
• 2 passport sized photographs
• Copies of relevant qualifications and/or evidence of gas work experience
• A declaration of the category for the individual making the application
• First-time applicants will also be required to provide an acceptable  form of photographic identification e.g. a passport or driving licence