Features to comply with vehicle safety regulations and the introduction of new materials into car designs are requiring stricter control of welding to deliver product quality.

The manufacturers have taken the steps to ensure that the vehicle, if involved in an accident, will achieve or exceed safety regulations and standards and these passive safety features must be preserved post-repair. As such, the safety, quality and cost-effectiveness of repair welding in the automotive sector are critically dependent on the skill and knowledge of welders and welding operators.

This CSWIP personnel certification scheme ensures that the examiners who assess and verify the skills of the welders who carryout repairs to damaged vehicles will have the necessary competences to ensure that the welder is proficient in producing a weld that achieves the minimum design requirements of the manufacturer and more paramount will exhibit the same safety characteristic should the vehicle be involved in a second collision