Alberta B Pressure Ticket

(Transfer/Reciprocal Pressure Tickets)

A) The Alberta Boilers Safety Association (ABSA) will issue Alberta B Pressure tickets to welders from other provinces who meet the following two criterias:

Welders must hold a Journeyman Welder ticket with an Interprovincial Red Seal. (A Red Seal number starts with 22-) or completion of apprenticeship and journeyman status from another province.
And
One of the following valid pressure tickets:

 Province Ticket Name
 New BrunswickF3-F4 or F4 Qualified* (approved does not count)
 NewfoundlandGSC 001*
 Prince Edward IslandPEI 001*
 Nova ScotiaNS01*
 ManitobaF3-F4 or F4*
 SaskatchewanF3-F4*
 British ColumbiaBCP-100*
 OntarioF3 F4* (must be issued by TSSA)
QuebecB Pressure*

*in most cases these tests are performed on a 6", schedule 80, 2G-5G position

Fee for reciprocal ticket $172.00

Out of Province B Pressure Reciprocal Form (click here)

Please contact ABSA at 780-437-9100 to apply for a transferable ticket 

 

 

B) If you have an Journeyman Welder Interprovincial Red Seal ticket or completion of apprenticeship/journeyman status, but no valid pressure ticket from another province?

  1. Make application with ABSA to perform a inital B pressure test at any ABSA testing centre in Alberta.
  2. Bookings are usually made 2-4 weeks in advance.
  3. Test coupon: (6" pipe, sch.80, 2G-5G positions, 6010 Root / 7018 Fill & Cap.)
  4. Fee $235.00

Schedule and site locations (click here)

To review the summary (syllabus) for the exam form #AB-61 (click here)

If you don't have an Interprovincial Red Seal ticket or Journeyman welder status from another province?

Occasionally Alberta contractors will authorize a Provisional C Ticket to welders without a Red Seal or journeyman status from another province.  These provisional tickets are vaild for a specified period of time and only good for the contractor that authorized the test.

  1. Must have a pressure qualfication from your home province.
  2. Must provide documentation to provide 3 years pressure welding experience (letters from employer or log book).
  3. Must do a performance qualification test. This test can be completed at the Boilermakers 146 Learning Centre.

If you have any questions please contact the Boilermaker Learning at (780) 451-5999

or

ABSA at (780) 437-9100 or click here for their website

 

 
 
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