Corrosion Protection eLearning

Learn online with Lloyd's Register. Our Online Corrosion Protection course allows you to apply your learning immediately.

Overview

This course covers all aspects of marine coatings inspection. All the course materials and assessments are online, allowing you to decide how and when you want to study. To complete the course successfully, you’ll need to work through all the core and specialist units and achieve a 100% pass in all the multiple-choice tests.

Completing this online course allows you to progress to a PR34, IMO, PSPC approved coating inspector qualification workshop with an independent organisation, leading to accreditation and approval under the requirements of MSC.215(82) and IACS UI SC223. Please contact us for details.

You will receive a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

Who will benefit

This course is designed for anyone wishing to extend their knowledge and overall understanding of the marine coatings industry. It’s suitable for office-based staff in coating inspection organisations, and paint applicators seeking to advance their career.

Course duration

• 100% online training and online assessment

• Course duration recommended three to six months. Delegates will have access to the course content for 12 months from registration.

 Marking structure

 100% pass mark for the online training is required

Course price

£550 + VAT

Certification

 Upon successful completion of the course, a certificate of completion will be issued.

Course objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Understand the basic principles of the protective coatings to allow a recruit entrance into the industry, training for an experienced person, and education to lead hands, engineers and assistants or third-party personnel.
• Identify the principals of the protective coatings’ application.
• Know how to prepare the surfaces using abrasive blast cleaning and implement the right operational procedures
• Apply basic paint application such as brush and roller application.
  Understand the coating inspection and inspection equipment used.

Course content

The below topics are covered during the course:

• Protective Coatings Application module
  Health & Safety, Access, Plant and Equipment, Surface preparation, Coating Types, Coating application, Quality Control, Metallic Coatings, Concrete, environmental, Coating Failure, Management and Supervision, Offshore and Marine, Speciality Unites, Visual standards
• Abrasive Blast Cleaning
  Introduction, Health & Safety, Blast Media, Standards and Quality Control, Operational Procedures, Process Control
• Spray Painting
  Introduction, Health & Safety, Paint Materials, Airless Spray Equipment, Conventional Air Spray, Plural Component Spray
• Inspection and Engineering
  Coating Inspection and Inspection Equipment, Corrosion, Cathodic Protection and Coatings, Marine General IMO Regulations, Marine PSPC, Design& Construction, ISO and other International Standards, Quality Management, Paint Testing, Soluble Salts, Specialist Tests and Coating Surveys

To find out more information and to register, please contact marine-training@lr.org .