API RP 1169:2013 pdf free download.Recommended Practice for Basic Inspection Requirements—New Pipeline Construction
4 Pipeline Construction Inspector Responsibilities
4.1 Scope This section outlines the responsibilities, personal conduct, and job performance expectations for pipeline construction inspectors that enable them to effectively carry out their duties using the knowledge and skills covered in the following sections on inspector requirements. An inspector is an individual qualified to monitor, assess, evaluate, verify, discuss, decide, resolve, report, and document pipeline construction activities to ensure the requirements of the design, drawings, specifications, regulations, and industry practices are being met safely, efficiently, and in an environmentally sound manner. Inspector or inspection team authority is backed up by contractual provisions that state all work done, as well as material provided, shall be subject, at all times, to inspection by the company in charge of the project.
4.2 Owner/Operator Representative Inspectors are expected to function at all times as representatives of the pipeline company (or other entity) owning and/or managing the project. In most cases, the inspector works for or represents a pipeline company, where strict procedures and/or contract provisions are in place that spell out the expectations and obligations of the inspector’s performance.
4.3 Quality Assurance Quality assurance includes those activities focused on providing confidence that quality requirements are consistently fulfilled. Inspectors are expected to be the principal means of assuring work and material quality during field construction.
Early insistence that work is not to be performed without an inspector present strengthens quality assurance. Any questions that may arise regarding quality and acceptability of work, materials furnished, and services provided are decided upon by the inspector, inspection team, and/or owner/operator. Inspectors are required to reject work, materials, and services that do not meet the standards, contract terms, specifications, drawings, or other requirements of the project. Decisions by the inspector, inspection team, and/or owner/operator regarding quality, acceptability, and materials provided are final and conclusive.
4.4 Relationship with Contractors, Suppliers, and Vendors Inspectors are expected to establish a professional business relationship with the contractor, suppliers, and vendors. These relationships should be based on interactions that are characterized by a reasonable, prudent, and forthright attitude and grounded in the highest degree of integrity. Inspectors must remember that contractors are to function as independent contractors with the power and authority to select the means, methods, and manner to perform the contracted work. Inspectors must respect this position and not direct nor supervise the contractor’s work. However, in some cases, inspectors are required to implement cost control measures.
4.5 Planning Activities
Inspectors should mutually plan upcoming tasks with their contractor counterparts and owner/operator representatives, which will aid in smoother job performance and work completion. This should solidify a team approach in tackling each day’s work and lessen the threat of potential problems.
4.6 Authority to Stop Work
Inspectors are empowered and expected to shut down any work on the basis of, but not limited to, conditions,situations, or activities that have occurred, are occurring, or may occur that could result in:
— imminent danger to any person, including contractor or owner/operator personnel;
— imminent danger to owner/operator or other property or the environment;
— substandard quality/work techniques that do not meet owner/operator specifications.
4.7 Reporting Inspectors are expected to report deficiencies, unsatisfactory work, thefts, vandalism, missing materials/property, or suspicious activities/occurrences and other concerns in a timely, complete, and accurate manner to the chief inspector (Annex A), project manager, or designated owner/operator personnel depending on the project team organization.
4.8 Documentation Inspectors should complete required documentation in a timely, concise, and accurate manner, including daily inspection reports, pipe tallies, red line drawing markups (showing physical changes) for as-built, extra work authorizations (if allowed by owner), and other reports/forms as directed in a format acceptable to the owner/operator.API RP 1169 pdf download.API RP 1169:2013 pdf free download
