Reports (6) Flashcards

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What are Reports?

A

Evidence of a completed inspection.

The product of a NDT inspection.

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Report Format

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  • Handwritten
  • Computer (via template)
  • Large + Complex inspections are booklets
  • Verbal
  • Body Language
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3
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What does a Report focus on?

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  • The inspection

- The product

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4
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Identification in Reports

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  • 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.

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5
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Report Presentation

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  • 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
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Report Audience

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  • Why the report is being written, for whom?
  • Who specifies the inspection details
  • Formal and clear
  • mention limitations of inspection
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7
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What are Interim Reports?

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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

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8
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Formating Reports

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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)
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Report Organization

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Lots of equipment requires more organization

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

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pictures or sketched

  • context
  • scale
  • orientation
  • how many are needed
  • add information to relay scale and orientation
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Report Visuals - Context

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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

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12
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What are Vanishing Points?

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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)
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13
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Considering photography for a report

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  • verify use of cameras
  • type of cameras
  • restriction of photos
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Location Information on a Report

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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
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15
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Security of Reports

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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
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