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This document is a pre-audit questionnaire for a company applying for EN 1090-1 certification. It contains over 50 questions across various topics including: general company and application details; documentation of the factory production control system; personnel qualifications; equipment maintenance; product design process; constituent materials; component specifications; product evaluation; non-conforming products; customer complaints; responsibilities of welding coordinators; welder qualifications; welding quality management system; weld inspection and testing; heat treatments; material storage; special processes like mechanical fastening and corrosion protection; subcontracting; and quality requirements for subcontractors. The company is asked to complete the checklist and submit it along with supporting documentation for their preliminary assessment.

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1 en 1090 1 Questionnaire

This document is a pre-audit questionnaire for a company applying for EN 1090-1 certification. It contains over 50 questions across various topics including: general company and application details; documentation of the factory production control system; personnel qualifications; equipment maintenance; product design process; constituent materials; component specifications; product evaluation; non-conforming products; customer complaints; responsibilities of welding coordinators; welder qualifications; welding quality management system; weld inspection and testing; heat treatments; material storage; special processes like mechanical fastening and corrosion protection; subcontracting; and quality requirements for subcontractors. The company is asked to complete the checklist and submit it along with supporting documentation for their preliminary assessment.

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PRE-AUDIT QUESTIONNAIRE FOR

EN 1090-1

Company Name
Address

Management Rep.

Please complete the following checklist and submit to NSAI with your documentation for the
preliminary assessment.

Questions to be considered Comments


General
For which Execution Class are you applying for?

What base material(s) are you applying for?

What welding process(es) are used?

Which declaration method (see Annex A of EN 1090-1)


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is being used?

Who is/are the named Responsible Welding


Coordinator(s) (RWC)?

How long has your Factory Production Control (FPC)


system been in place?

Do you already have an ISO 9001 registered quality


management system?

If YES, can you provide a valid certificate?

6.3.1 General
Have you documented your FPC system?

What evidence can you provide of how the results of


inspections, tests and assessments are recorded?

What evidence can you provide to show that the


action to be taken if control values or criteria are not
met is recorded?

How long are these records retained, and is this


specified in the FPC manual?

6.3.2 Personnel
Who has overall responsibility for the FPC and its
implementation?

Where have the responsibilities, authorities and


relationships between personnel been defined?

What qualifications and training are required for


personnel defined and are they documented in the
FPC manual?

6.3.3 Equipment
Do you have a list of essential equipment used for
production?

How regularly is the equipment maintained,


calibrated, regularly inspected?

6.3.4 Structural design process


Are you involved in, or take any responsibility for the
structural design process?

If YES, how is compliance with the design maintained?

What procedures are identified in the FPC manual for


checking calculations, and the individuals responsible
for the design?

What resources and software calculation, design,


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verification packages are used as part of the design
process?

6.3.5 Constituent products used in manufacture


How is constituent product used in the manufacturing
process reviewed and is there a written procedure for
this?

What is the procedure for checking and recording that


constituent products conform to the specification and
that they are correctly used in component
manufacture?

Does this procedure include a requirement for the


traceability of constituent products as required per EN
1090-2/-3 for the applicable Execution Class (EXC)?

6.3.6 Component specification


Who is responsible for the preparation of the
component specification is: you or the purchaser, or
do both contribute to its preparation?

Do you have a written inspection and test plan for


checking and recording that manufactured
components conform to their component specification?

6.3.7 Product evaluation


What procedures have been established to ensure that
the declared values and classes of all of the
characteristics are maintained?

Is the means of production control of characteristics


and the sampling methods for a component or family
to be evaluated in accordance with I.S EN 1090-1
Table 2?

6.3.8 Non-conforming products


How are non-conforming products dealt with and is
this documented in a procedure?

How are such events recorded and are these records


kept for the period defined in the written procedures?

Do you conduct repair/rectification on non-conforming


products, and if so, are descriptions of appropriate
procedures available at all workstations where this is
performed?

Complaints
How are customer complaints received and responded
to and is this documented in a procedure?

Does the system include appropriate measures to


avoid or correct these deficiencies?

Responsible Welding Coordinator (RWC)


What evidence (certificates/CV’s etc.) can you provide
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to show the RWC(s) is/are duly qualified as required
per EN 1090-2/-3 for the applicable Execution Class
(EXC)?

What documented evidence is there regarding all the


tasks and responsibilities assigned to RWC(s) (e.g. job
description, responsibility matrix etc)?

Welders and welding operators


What evidence can you provide to show that all
welders and welding operators are duly qualified
(Coded) according to the relevant standards and that
there are sufficient numbers, suitably approved for
the scope of the work being performed?

Welding Quality Management System (WQMS)


In the case of Stainless Steels (SS), have you
identified the applicable steel group (Austenitic,
Ferritic etc.)?

What evidence can you provide of your Welding


Quality Management System (WQMS) to include your
portfolio of:
 Welding Procedures Specification (WPS)
 Welding Procedures Qualification Record (WPQR)
 Welder Qualification Test Records (WQTR)

Note: Only weld prototypes (performed and tested for


the WPQRs) that are witnessed and tested by an
independent and nationally accredited
body/laboratory (INAB, UKAS etc) will be deemed
valid.

Inspection and testing of welds


Have you identified your NDT capability and what
evidence can you provide that NDT operators are duly
qualified according to the relevant standards?

What evidence can you provide that you have


sufficient and competent personnel for planning,
performing, and supervising the inspection and testing
of welds and that inspections are performed according
to specified documented procedures/requirements?

What evidence can you provide that the testing


equipment is suitable for NDT testing and that a
maintenance schedule exists for this equipment?

Where all/any NDT testing performed externally, what


external NDT companies used, if any?

Post-weld heat treatments


Are any post-weld heat treatments performed?

How are records of heat treatments maintained?

How do the records demonstrate that the specification


has been followed based on base material, weld,
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component specification, standards?

Storage of parent materials, welding


consumables, structural fasteners etc.
What evidence can you provide that the tasks and
responsibilities related to the control of Parent
Materials, Welding Consumables, Structural Fasteners
etc. are specified and implemented in production, i.e
identification, storage and handling?

Special process: Mechanical Fastening


What training and qualifications are required for staff
involved in the process?

Do written procedures exist?

What preparation and tests are required and how are


the results documented?

Special process: Corrosion Protection


How are Corrosion Protection treatments performed,
checked and recorded including training of staff for
execution of the process, including a responsibility
matrix, and is this documented in a procedure?

Does the process meet the requirements of Cl 10 of


EN 1090-2 with regard to the premises, mechanical
preparation, steels etc?

Other Special Processes


Are any other special processes used in the
manufacturing process?

If YES, what written procedures do you have that


specify how skills and training for these processes are
controlled?

Sub‐contracting
What sub‐contractor(s) of services or activities are
used, if any, as part of the manufacturing process
(e.g. welding, inspection, non‐destructive testing, heat
treatment, galvanising, surface treatment, structural
design, welding coordination)?

If YES, how do you ensure that the sub-contractor(s)


can comply with the quality requirements as
specified?

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