Reports (6)

Question 1

What are Reports?

Answer 1

Evidence of a completed inspection.

The product of a NDT inspection.

Question 2

Report Format

Answer 2

• Handwritten
• Computer (via template)
• Large + Complex inspections are booklets
• Verbal
• Body Language

Question 3

What does a Report focus on?

Answer 3

• The inspection

- The product

Question 4

Identification in Reports

Answer 4

• Individuals need to be identified (position, role, title)
• Identified by name via signature NOT IN BODY OF TEXT!

shows which roles where involved to make the work done valid.

Question 5

Report Presentation

Answer 5

• Correct spelling + grammer
• Neat

Critical to the communication of results.

Handwritten reports must we printed not in cursive

• Number 1 needs brackets
• Number 0 needs a slash
• Number 7 needs a slash
• Letter z needs a slash

Question 6

Report Audience

Answer 6

• Why the report is being written, for whom?
• Who specifies the inspection details
• Formal and clear
• mention limitations of inspection

Question 7

What are Interim Reports?

Answer 7

Reports for detected defects that are to be repaired in a short time or product relies on report acceptance.

• adequately describe conditions so a repair can be made (verbal, written both)
• often use shorthand

Followed up by a more formal report

Question 8

Formating Reports

Answer 8

Five W’s

• who is involved?
• what inspection equipment was used and what was inspected?
• Where was the inspection, what areas where inspected? (surface conditions, environmental conditions)
• When was the inspection carried out? (date, time, when was the inspection process carried out?) (DD/MM/YY)
• Why was the inspection done? (law/regulation, annual inspection, construction code, requirement by an engineer, unexpected, bought/sold, confirm condition)

Question 9

Report Organization

Answer 9

Lots of equipment requires more organization

• logical manner
• Tables
• Matrixes
• Diagrams
• Colour-codes
• Symbols
• Legends

Question 10

Report Visuals

Answer 10

pictures or sketched

• context
• scale
• orientation
• how many are needed
• add information to relay scale and orientation

Question 11

Report Visuals - Context

Answer 11

Why was the drawing created, how does it relate to the equipment

• state location
• what the image
• details (what is what)
• perspective
• orientation (are you on the left side, on-top, inside etc)
• arrows + labels
• scale (relay general size via. comparison or dimensions)

DO NOT CLUTTER ONLY NEEDED INFORMATION SHOULD BE SHOWN

Question 12

What are Vanishing Points?

Answer 12

Used in drawings to provide realistic-looking diminishing of size as distance increases.

• makes scaling difficult
• we want technical not artistic (accurately communicate findings and relative dimensions)

Question 13

Considering photography for a report

Answer 13

• verify use of cameras
• type of cameras
• restriction of photos

Question 14

Location Information on a Report

Answer 14

State specific area in a logical easy-to-follow manner

• narrow context
  ex
  in the country of Canada, province of Alberta, city of Calgary.
  not Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Question 15

Security of Reports

Answer 15

Retaining of copies (client, inspector)

• multiple copies (don’t get lost)
• Type of copy (electric, paper)
• Ensure records can’t be altered
• How it is delivered (evaluated clients security requirements for an information transfer)
• More risk with electronic