Welding
Enhance your welding and fabrication skills and master the technical aspects of your mahi while ensuring industry compliance, productivity, quality, and safety in your projects.
Upcoming events…

in person
What every engineer should know about welding – webinar series
12 part webinar series
Delivered from 25 March to 19 November 2026
This must-attend webinar series offers welding professionals an essential platform to stay informed on the latest developments in welding standards, procedures, and quality management systems. Whether you’re an AS/NZS 2214 Welding Supervisor, Welding Specialist, Engineer, Inspector, or NDT personnel, these sessions provide invaluable professional development to ensure compliance and excellence in your work.
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Inspector Level 1 course. It provides you with qualifications of HERA Welding Inspector – steel structures and a HERA certificate of proficiency in visual testing of welded joints to AS/NZS ISO 17637:2019, allowing you to perform the essential duties of a welding inspector within the scope of AS/NZS 5131 Section 7 and Appendix I.
E-LEARN
Health & safety in welding: updated course
Online series across four webinars
10 February 2026, 12pm | 12 February 2026, 12pm
17 February 2026, 12pm | 19 February 2026, 12pm
Make your workplace safer and more productive with effective risk management
This four-part webinar series is perfect for safety team members, staff involved in implementing a safe work environment and anyone exposed to the welding and fabrication industry. It will show the major risks found in most welding and fabrication workplaces and the control measures needed to reduce their potential for harm.
You’ll get to understand the roles and responsibilities of people involved in introducing and maintaining required controls, the relevant Acts and role of WorkSafe, as well as how to identify support resources for implementing controls, specific hazards, risks and practical solution to these risks.
IN PERSON
API 579 fitness-for-service assessment
course
2 day course
Delivered from 11 March to 12 March 2026
This two-day course, co-hosted by HERA and Sequence Engineering, is designed for inspectors, plant engineers, and engineering managers who need practical skills in assessing pressure vessels, tanks, and piping for continued service. It introduces the API 579-1 / ASME FFS-1 approach and gives you a clear process for evaluating common forms of damage, understanding their significance, and deciding whether equipment should be run, repaired, or replaced. Through case studies and worked examples, you’ll learn how to apply the standard in real situations and gain confidence in making sound integrity decisions.
Led by structural integrity specialist Dr Annette Karstensen.
Registrations are now open!


E-LEARN
Welding supervisor exam
Online exam – 7 May 2026
Paper A – closed book, supervised: 9am
Paper B – open book: 1pm
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Supervisor course. It provides you with either a HERA certificate of attainment for CBIP elevating work platforms inspectors, or a AS/NZS 2214 2214 certificate for HERA Welding Inspector WT1 module candidates (dependant on the papers taken).
IN PERSON
Welding inspector
Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
11 – 15 May 2026, 8.30am – 5pm
This course is perfect for fabricators who perform in-house visual examinations and those seeking the CBIP Certified Welding Inspector. It is especially relevant to those in steel construction, infrastructure fabrication and maintenance, bridge building, transport industry, machinery, shipbuilding, and maintenance.
in person + E-LEARN
Welding inspector exam
Practical – Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
15 May 2026
Theory – online, supervised
21 May 2026
This exam is available to those who have successfully completed the HERA Welding Inspector Level 1 course. It provides you with qualifications of HERA Welding Inspector – steel structures and a HERA certificate of proficiency in visual testing of welded joints to AS/NZS ISO 17637:2019, allowing you to perform the essential duties of a welding inspector within the scope of AS/NZS 5131 Section 7 and Appendix I.
in person + E-LEARN
Welding supervisor
Tāmaki Mākaurau, Auckland
23 – 27 February 2026
Ōtautahi Mākaurau, Christchurch
2 – 6 March 2026
This course is for those with three years experience in the welding/fabrication industry who want to gain expertise in structural steel welding. Fabricators, leading hands, fabrication supervisors, NDT technicians, welding Inspector trainees, welders moving to a supervisory role, QA managers and technical representatives will benefit from the content.