Pipefitting Level 1
(Craft Assessments for Industrial Pipefitting are available upon request)

• Pipefitting Hand Tools
  Covers general hand tool safety and procedures for identifying, selecting, inspecting, using and caring for tools of the trade.
• Pipefitting Power Tools
  Identifies hazards and explains general safety procedures that must be followed when using power tools.
• Threaded Pipe Fabrication
  Identifies the various materials used in threaded piping systems and explains the types and uses of various screwed fittings.
• Ladders and Scaffolds
  Covers hazards and general safety procedures governing the use of stepladders, straight and extension ladders, fixed scaffolds and rolling scaffolds.
• Motorized Equipment
  Explains the applications, proper use and safety considerations for using engine-driven generators, welding machines, air compressors, pumps, forklift trucks and hydraulic cranes.
• Excavations
  Provides excavation design hazards and personal safety requirements as governed by OSHA regulations.
• Underground Pipe
  Provides the size classifications, fittings, joining methods and storage and handling requirements for underground pipe.

Pipefitting Level 2

• Intermediate Excavations
  Explains the use of storing materials per OSHA standards and covers shoring systems, installing a hydraulic vertical shore, determining the overall fall of a sewer line, setting grade and elevation of a trench and backfilling.
• Underground Pipe Installation
  Explains installation procedures and guidelines using various types of pipes.
• Drawings and Detail Sheets
  Introduces the trainee to plot plans, structural drawings, elevation drawings, as-built drawings, equipment arrangement drawings, P&IDs, isometric drawings, spool sheets and detail sheets.
• Piping Systems
  Introduces chemical, compressed air, fuel oil, steam, and water systems, and explains how to identify piping systems according to color codes.
• Pipefitting Trade Math
  Explains how to use ratios and proportions, solve basic algebra, area, volume, and circumference problems, and solve right triangles using the Pythagorean Theorem.
• Socket Weld Pipe Fabrication
  Describes the materials used in socket weld piping systems and how to determine pipe lengths between socket weld fittings.
• Butt Weld Pipe Fabrication
  Covers how to prepare pipe ends for welding, determine the lengths between butt weld fittings, select and install backing rings, fabricate channel iron welding jigs, use and care for welding clamps and fabricate various types of butt weld fittings to pipe.
• Rigging
  Explains how to select, inspect, use and maintain a block and tackle, chain hoist, come-along, jack and tugger.
• Pipe Hangers and Supports
  Describes pipe hangers and supports found on the job site.

Pipefitting Level 3

• Advanced Blueprint Reading
  Explains how to read plot plans, equipment location plans, P&IDs, piping orthographic drawings, structural steel plans, piping ISOs and detail sheets.
• Standards and Specifications
  Explains how to read and interpret pipefitting standards, codes, and specifications.
• Advanced Trade Math
  Explains thermal expansion, the use of tables of equivalents and conversion tables.
• Motorized Equipment
  Explains the use and safety requirements of hydrostatic pumps, hydroblaster pumps, drain cleaners, pipeline side boom tractors, manlifts and cable lifts.
• Introduction to Above-Ground Pipe Installation
  Identifies types of pipe, flanges, gaskets, and bolts. Includes step-by-step procedures for installing pipe sleeves and floor penetrations.
• Identifying and Installing Valves
  Identifies and provides installation methods for different types of valves.
• Field Routing and Vessel Trim
  Explains how to secure the work area, determine field run specifications, rigging equipment needs, load weights for erection equipment and support needs.
• Spring Can Supports
  Explains how to identify and select spring can supports.
• Testing Piping Systems and Equipment
  Explains how to perform pretests, service flow tests, head pressure tests, hydrostatic tests and steam blow tests.
• Basic Plumbing
  Covers drainage fixture unit ratings, the use of various fixtures and floor drains and procedures for assembling cast-iron soil pipe with lead-and-oakum joints, compression joints and no-hub joints.

Pipefitting Level 4

• Planning Work Activities
  Covers how to plan and coordinate work activities, perform material take-outs, and secure equipment and materials.
• Advanced Pipe Fabrication
  Presents various piping offsets: three-line, 45-degree, equal spread offsets around a vessel, and three-line, 45-degree, unequal offsets.
• Performing NDE Testing
  Explains how to identify the potential hazards for testing and types of NDE testing.
• Stress Relieving and Aligning
  Explains thermal expansion and methods of stress relieving, including preheating, interpass heating and post heating.
• Steam Traps
  Identifies types of stem traps, including mechanical, thermostatic, and thermodynamic steam traps, as well as strainers.
• In-Line Specialties
  Identifies potential hazards associated with in-line specialties as well as a variety of in-line specialties and their uses.
• Special Piping
  Explains how to assemble flared and compression joints using copper tubing.
• Hot Taps
  Explains hot tap safety and potential hazards as well as how to identify and install the fittings used with hot taps.
• Maintaining Valves
  Explains how to remove and install threaded and flanged valves, how to replace valve stem o-ring and bonnet gaskets.