Accreditation
ATTAR is committed to delivering high quality, cost-effective services. We have high professional standards, ethics and integrity, all of which are backed up by independent accreditations, credentials, and memberships.
Accreditations
NATA accredited to ISO 17025
– meets/exceeds ISO 9001 for testing companies
– NATA accredited for Acoustic Emission monitoring, including tanks, pressure vessels and composites, as well as some mechanical and weld testing
NDT Level 3 certified staff
– AINDT, PCN, SNT TC1A credentials – basic and advanced techniques: highest level of certification attainable (Level 3) in Acoustic Emission monitoring, as well as advanced NDT techniques such as Phased Array Ultrasonics, and Time of Flight Diffraction Ultrasonics
Accredited Gas testing station
– AS 2030, AS 2337
Authorised Qualifying Body (AQB) for AINDT & BINDT
– Australian Institute of Non Destructive Testing, and the British Institute of Non Destructive Testing (PCN certification), respectively
– training & examination to AS3998/ ISO9712
National Aerospace Non-Destructive Testing Board (NANDTB)
– ATTAR recognised as a NANDTB Approved Training Organisation (ATO) – Member, Secretary of the Board of Directors
Credentials
- International Atomic Energy Agency
– NDT Technical Committee Chair
NATA Non-destructive Testing Accreditation & Advisory Committee
– Immediate Past Chairman & Member
– Approved NATA Assessor
AINDT
– Certification Board Members, current/former
– Longest serving (former) President – Federal Council Members
– Applications Committee
– Authorised Qualifying Body & Approved Examiner
Welding Technology Institute of Australia (WTIA)
– Member
National Aerospace Non-Destructive Testing Board (NANDTB)
– Board Members
Forensic Engineering Society of Australia
– Member
BINDT
– Authorised Qualifying Body & Approved Examiner
Standards committees
Standards Australia Subcommittee MT/7/7 Acoustic Emission
– Chairman
Standards Australia Committee MT004 – All Methods
Standards Australia Committee MT004 – All Methods
Standards Australia Committee MT/7 NDT
Standards Australia Committee ME/5 Cranes
Standards Australia Subcommittee BD/94- Slip Resistance of Flooring Surfaces
ISO TC 135 Working Group Committee
AINDT’s Journal “Non Destructive Testing Australia”
– Editor (former)
Selected memberships
- Institution of Engineers, Australia; Chartered Professional Engineer
- Certified Materials Professional Institute of Materials Engineering Australia (Materials Australia)
- Australasian Corrosion Association
- Australian Ceramic Society
- Risk Engineering Society
- American Society for Metals International
- American Society for Testing Materials
- American Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ASNT)
- Forensic Engineers Society of Australia
- Australian Industry Defence Network (AIDN)
- Asset Management Association
- South East Melbourne Manufacturers Alliance
- Facilities Management Association
- Contract Heat Treatment Association
- Elevated Work Platform Association
- Australian Stone Advisory Association
- Australian Tile Council (former Secretary/Treasurer)
- Australian Timber Flooring Association