Reports (6) Flashcards
What are Reports?
Evidence of a completed inspection.
The product of a NDT inspection.
Report Format
- Handwritten
- Computer (via template)
- Large + Complex inspections are booklets
- Verbal
- Body Language
What does a Report focus on?
- The inspection
- The product
Identification in Reports
- 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.
Report Presentation
- 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
Report Audience
- Why the report is being written, for whom?
- Who specifies the inspection details
- Formal and clear
- mention limitations of inspection
What are Interim Reports?
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
Formating Reports
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)
Report Organization
Lots of equipment requires more organization
- logical manner
- Tables
- Matrixes
- Diagrams
- Colour-codes
- Symbols
- Legends
Report Visuals
pictures or sketched
- context
- scale
- orientation
- how many are needed
- add information to relay scale and orientation
Report Visuals - Context
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
What are Vanishing Points?
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)
Considering photography for a report
- verify use of cameras
- type of cameras
- restriction of photos
Location Information on a Report
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
Security of Reports
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