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This paper will explore the concept of a “Standard of Care” as applied to coating inspection on industrial coatings projects. Establishing a “Standard of Care” for coating inspection sets an expectation for those providing, procuring or otherwise interacting with inspectors on an industrial coatings job.
This paper will explore the concept of a “Standard of Care” as applied to coating inspection on industrial coatings projects. Establishing a “Standard of Care” for coating inspection sets an expectation for those providing, procuring or otherwise interacting with inspectors on an industrial coatings job. The paper will present data and anecdotal evidence suggesting that the range of expectations for coating inspection may have a significant cost impact on industrial coatings projects. Defining one or multiple levels of inspection based on issues such as the type of oversight, degree of sampling and level of authority may lead to more cost‐effective coating projects.
Every day a new specification comes out naming coating manufacturers reps as performers of Coating Inspection duties on projects. These often include multiple scheduled job site visit commitments and having the manufacturers rep sign off on inspection hold points. I know that in some instances this is due to old outdated engineer and owners’ specifications where this stipulation has been in the documents for years and no one ever bothered to remove it, even though they may agree with me on this point.
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The role of a Coating Inspector has evolved considerably over the past few decades, and the responsibilities have increased over what used to be a rather straightforward job: to verify that surface preparation and coating application meet the project specification requirements. Today there are week-long or multi-week basic and advanced coating inspection courses, specialty courses that are industry-specific (e.g., bridge, nuclear), courses that are substrate-specific (e.g., concrete coatings inspection) and even coating-specific (e.g., inspection of thermal spray coatings).
Third-party paint inspection contracts provided an immediate, tangible benefit in supplying a qualified, certified coating inspector full-time to a painting project. Inspectors could be rapidly deployed and provided someone to the project with broad experience in painting projects; however, simply providing a third-party contract paint inspector to a project did not always ensure the project was completed properly.