Competent person

A competent person is someone who, by virtue of their technical training and experience, has sufficient knowledge of the materials to be tested and is sufficiently familiar with the relevant national occupational health and safety regulations, accident prevention regulations and recognised rules of sound engineering practice (e.g. BG rules, DIN standards, VDE provisions, technical rules and regulations of other member states of the European Union or other signatory states of the Agreement of the European Economic Area) that they are able to assess the safe working condition of the materials to be tested.