December 10, 2012 Sinara Pipe Plant (a member of Pipe Metallurgical Company/TMK) held a professional skills contest among its pipe-cutters for the first time this year. This competition was part of the corporate youth program and involved eight contestants from the under-30 age group, TMK’s press service reports.

The board of jurors comprised employees from Sinara Pipe Plant’s subdivisions and members of the company’s trade union committee; for a week, they evaluated the contestants’ theoretical expertise and practical skills.

As for the theoretical part, the workers had to answer questions relating to labor protection, industrial and fire safety, labor law, and collective agreements as well as to prove their knowledge of professional terminology and production technologies.

The testing of their practical skills took place at the OCTG production shop T-4. The contestants had to look at some pipe samples and determine their class of strength, select those samples that did not meet the technical requirements, and to identify the type of socket needed for cutting.