SURFACE PREPARATION RELATED QUESTIONS.

1. What standard you are family with in surface preparation?

2. What salt extraction and analysis method you are familiar
3. How often you will carry out salt test?
4. How you will check surface cleanliness and what parameter you will accept.
5. IF the surface cleanliness is good and profile is less, will you accept for further painting?
6. Selection of abrasive and types of abrasives.
7. Which abrasives you are familiar
8. What types of test you will carryout to make sure that the abrasive is clean and correct size?
9. What is blotter test?
10. How often u will carry out blotter test.
10. In case of contamination found in blotter test what is your action.
11. What is environmental requirement while blasting and painting?
12. What is the substrate temperature mandatory requirement while blasting and painting?
13. What inspection instruments needed to check all related to blasting surface preparation
14. What is dust tape or sensitive tape test?
15. How you will rate dust and record
16. What is the minimal blasting pressure required?
17. Types of substrates, surface preparation and profile requirement.
18. For SS material what abrasive you will use and conditions of blasting
19. Why SS surface requires painting
20. How you will checking blasting pressure.
21. What is the distance between blasting nozzle and substrate?
22. What is sweep or brush off blasting?
23. Type of hand and power tool cleaning method.
24. Why solvent cleaning required and purpose.
25. What are the solvent cleaning standard and manual and power tool cleaning standards?
26. What are your governing documents during your course of inspection?
27. In case of any conflict what you will do initially.
28. How you will select and qualify blasting abrasives
28. What is rust grades and define
29. After blasting acceptance within how many hours/days/months the paint application shall
proceed? 30. In case after blasting if the duration exceeds for painting, what effects you will notice,
will you accept as it was for painting or will you demand for full blasting or sweep blasting?
31. In case contractor used contaminated abrasive, what action you will take.
32. If approved to use recycled abrasive, what test method you will initiate?
33. Before inspecting any job, what document you will check.
34. In case of wrong information in any document will you proceed directly or request for clarification
with client
35. Daily inspection check list
36. What is all the daily check you will carry out before blasting?
37. If a workers all working in unsafe working method, will you stop the job or inform their supervisor

or record the conditions?

38. Are you responsible for safety, please define
39. Have you got experience in painting shop or site/field?
40. In field, what types of safety precaution you will adhere?
41. How you will record all your finding and information
42. Which report will tell you all the needed information?
43. Can you prepare job specific inspection report / inspection test plant / method statement (if
needed).
44. In your experience what types of malpractice experience from contractors and how you will
control and correct in case deviations. The all the above question may form surface preparation
questions.
PAINTING RELATED QUESTIONS
1. What type of paints you have used before.
2. Most used coating materials in our industry?
3. Have you ever used inorganic zinc silicate or organic zinc rich epoxy?
4. What coating manufacturers document you will possess through your inspection?
5. Which document will lead to step by step procedure in blasting and painting?
6. Before painting what are the check measure you will carry out?
7. Will you witness during paint mixing? Is it mandatory or not?
8. What is the important mixing conditions and requirement while mixing zinc products?
9. Before starting production startup how you will qualify paint system and how?
10. Before starting production startup will the skilled painters shall be qualified or not? If yes, how?
11. What records you will maintain after their qualification?
12. After blasting within how many hours you will allow them for painting?
13. In case of any discoloration due to delayed painting what action you will take and explain?
14. Are you responsible to check airless spray pump pressure, witnessing spray tip selection and fan
angle? Which document describing these statutory requirements?
15. The coating application requirement which document you will refer?
16. If the wind speed is too high than normal will you allow painting or stop the painting fully.
17. If the wind speed is high, if painting proceeds what effect you will experience?
18. If the required DFT is ???, in what method you will assure the DFT in applied coating?
19. After painting application what are all the checks you will perform (during wet)?
20. After application of primer, the contractor wishes to apply intermediate coat, will you allow them
or advising them? What is the governing document on this issue?
21. Next day of primer application, before application of intermediate coat, what type of inspection
checks you will follow?
22. On the above question, what may be the findings, please define?
23. How you will make sure that the primer coat is properly prepared to receive intermediate coat?
24. After intermediate coat and final coat application when you will start your final inspection and
findings.
25. What is all the inspection needed after final coat? Please define.
26. What is contact point and how you will approach and inspect?

27. What is the final requirement of final coated items and which documents allows you to take
decision on this requirement?
28. How you will record all the findings and observation in your report, please define?
29. If you are working in confined space (i.e. tanks, internal pipes) what safety measure required?
30. If you are working in confined space (tanks or internal pipe) what are all the additional equipment
needed apart from daily inspection tools?
31. Types of environment you have previously coated in your experience?
32. Which environment is most harsh, please define?
33. Types of coating generic you have experienced and how have handled without coating failure?
34. What is coating failure, degradation or defects, please define?
35. If you find any of above issues, will you expose or keep silent?
36. In case of above issue not reported what adverse effects will takes place during operations?
37. Duties of inspectors roles, responsibilities and limitations?
38. What are non-conformance report, observation notes, and corrective action reports?
39. Please define basic contractors malpractice in coating application?
40. In which situation you will issue NCR?
41. If all the above blasting and painting application is subjected with stringent inspection, how the
non-conformance is being existed in coating industry and how you will control during course of
project phase?
42. Is that NCR always responsible to contractors or inspectors oversight?
43. How we can control and mitigate costly NCRs?
44. Will you instruct/demand contractors workforce directly? What is the right form of communication
method?