Mission and Vision
The aim of the School of Applied Non Destructive Examination is to provide the best possible training and support to students and personnel performing Non Destructive Testing.
Goals and Objectives
Our primary goal is to assist students to become highly skilled technicians who are fully committed to carrying out safety critical testing in a professional and responsible manner at all times.
History of the School
The School of Applied Non Destructive Examination cc was founded in 1981 by Eric Guest. We now have 2 fully qualified permanent instructors, and several part-time instructors, presenting scheduled courses at our premises in Boksburg, as well as away courses both nationally and internationally.
The Founder
The founder, Eric Guest, presented several papers on Non Destructive Examination – to the First African Conference on Non Destructive Examination in Nairobi in June, 1994 and to the Fall Conference of the American Society of Non Destructive Testing (ASNT) in Seattle in October, 1996. He held ASNT/ACCP/EN 473/ISO Level 3 certificates until mid 2008. Mr Guest has now retired after 52 years in NDT. Mr Guest compiled and presented courses in Ultrasonic Examination, Radiography, Magnetic Particle Inspection, Liquid Penetrant Inspection and Eddy Current Inspection. He also qualified as a commercial pilot in 1982.
Our General Manager
Elaine Macdonald has been managing the school for over 10 years. She has an MA, an AICB (SA) and is also the Chairperson of ASNT SA. She is currently on the committee of TETA representing the SA Aerospace industry.
Our Instructors
Between them SANDE’s instructors have more than 50 years NDT experience in Aerospace and General Industry and hold SNT-TC-1A Level II’s in multi-disciplines and ASNT Level III.
SANDE is responsible for maintaining the Southern Africa Section of ASNT.
SANDE presently educates up to 2000 students a year to ASNT recommended practice SNT-TC-1A, Levels 1 & II in MT, PT, UT, VT, RT & ET.
SANDE became an ATB to SAIW in August 2017 and offers SAQCC ISO 9712 examinations throughout the year at their premises.
AWS CWI courses and examinations are also presented regularly by QCCO, Egypt at SANDE.
The whole SANDE staff is committed to integrity and fairness.