QEMS Ltd

QEM Ltd has been providing professional services, technical consultancy, inspections and surveys, management, training and software for safe systems of work to the highly regulated gas and water industries for over 20 years. 

QEM helps clients, contractors, consultants and the regulator, in regulated sectors achieve and validate compliance to both regulatory obligations and technical standards. It does this by ensuring assets are designed, built, inspected, maintained and operated correctly by competent and verified personnel, using appropriate and effective processes. This ensure its clients can demonstrate compliance, reduce risk and achieve asset lifecycle.

In the Inspection & QA Division, QEM help utilities industries with steel welded pipelines to plan and manage their quality assurance and inspection requirements and validate the build or modifications through inspection to ensure conformity to specification. 

The company advise on specifications, test methods, frequencies and extent of inspections, procure, expedite and inspect permanent materials, including third-party approvals, develop inspection and test plans, management plans, carry out inspections and validation audits of contractors. 

Its services include weld engineering and coating consultancy, non-destructive testing, including visual weld inspection, magnetic particle inspection, coating inspection, ultrasonic testing depending on what the client needs. In some cases, it acts as a third-party inspector to maintain independence and work for the contractors and its clients. The company's pipeline inspectors, NDT technicians, expediting engineers, QA/QC engineers and managers provide a complete QA/QC package for steel welded pipelines.