INTRODUCTION

The Australasian Corrosion Association (ACA) is the leading body for the handling and mitigation of corrosion and its impacts across Australia and New Zealand. An internationally recognised association with accredited training courses, annual conferences, and networking opportunities, the ACA provides support across diverse sectors to provide the best knowledge and experience across the corrosion industry.

The corrosion industry encompasses a broad array of roles, expertise, and sectors. Corrosion practitioners often enter the corrosion field through various career paths from vocational to professional thus representing a diverse variety of backgrounds and qualifications levels. Regardless of the career pathway into the field of corrosion practice, it is expected that all certified corrosion practitioners are competent to practice independently.

To assure professionalism in practice, the ACA has established a certification scheme to assess the knowledge and experience of practitioners. The community and industry have certain expectations of corrosion practitioners which extends to their competency, how they apply their competency, and how they conduct themselves professionally.

Certification upholds these expectations and protects the community and industry by ensuring a high standard of practice. It is on this basis that the ACA certification scheme is based on competency.

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To be recognised as a certified corrosion practitioner, a person needs to demonstrate an underpinning knowledge of corrosion and competency to practice independently based on practical experience. There are two categories of corrosion practitioner:

  • Corrosion Technician – a person who has gained underpinning knowledge of corrosion, has at least three years relevant work experience and can demonstrate the 5 competencies
    • Ethical management, Currency of corrosion knowledge, Sustainability proficiency, Risk management, and Personal development in area of corrosion
  • Corrosion Technologist – a person who has gained underpinning knowledge of corrosion, has at least five years relevant work experience and can demonstrate the 12 competencies
    • Ethical management, Currency of corrosion knowledge, Sustainability proficiency, Risk management, Performance, Taking action, Responsibility for corrosion activities for your work and team, Personal development in area of corrosion, Communication and stakeholder engagement, Development of creativity and innovation, Problem analysis, and Judgement

KNOWLEDGE

There is a base level of underpinning corrosion knowledge that is required and applies to both categories. An applicant will need to provide evidence of how they have gained underpinning knowledge of corrosion. This knowledge is most easily obtained from completing a relevant course on corrosion such as ACA Coating Selection and Specification or AMPP Cathodic Protection Level 1 Tester by way of example. Corrosion knowledge may also have been gained through completion of a formal qualification.

You will be required to provide evidence of how you gained your corrosion knowledge. This may be by providing certificates of completed courses or transcripts of formal study showing relevant subjects that address corrosion. These are just two examples and there may be others.

For further details on the entire certification scheme, please continue reading below.

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