Learn how to conduct Visual Tank Inspections and Valve Rebuilds to comply with Industry Standards for Cylinder Mainenance.

The International Training VIP Inspector eLearning course serves two main functions:

• Completion of the online portion of this course meets the OSHA regulations for awareness level training for anyone who handles high pressure
• cylinders as part of their job duties. Any dive center employee handling cylinders should complete this training prior to handling cylinders.
• Many divers may benefit from this knowledge as well.
• Serves as the academic material for the VIP Inspector course, developing a student’s knowledge base and preparing them for the hands-on
• training components of the VIP Inspector course with their instructor.

The SDI Visual Inspections Procedures course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:

• Purpose
  • Legal requirements, standards of the community
• Safe handling of cylinders
  • Fill station operator rules and recommendations
  • Identification of the various cylinder markings
  • Legal/illegal filling requirements
  • Filling procedures
• Tools and their uses
• Visual inspection indications
  • Proper identification of the various defect conditions
• Criteria for rejection and condemnation of a cylinder
  • Define the criteria for cylinder rejection
  • Define the criteria for condemning a cylinder
• Other services
  • Valve inspection and cleaning
  • Compressor operations
  • oxygen cleaning
• The basis for cylinder cleaning
• Visual inspection procedures
  • Step by step walk-through of the inspection process

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course graduates may:

• Visually inspect high-pressure scuba cylinders for defective conditions that could cause a cylinder failure
• Train fill station operators (FSO) in the safe methods of handling, transporting and filling of high-pressure scuba cylinders