Director – R. Al Kaassamany
R A K Technical Services was founded by R. Al Kaassamany, a third generation lifting equipment expert with a Mechanical Engineering university background and further qualifications in mechanics, heavy lifting equipment, continuing education credits from Daimler Chrysler, TEREX, Demag, Grove Manitowac, and has attended seminars in inspection, load testing, NDT and national and international safety issues.
In addition to that the founder is a qualified assessor and moderator registered with TETA, CETA and MerSETA, he serves on SETA’s committees, and serves in developing qualification for the Lifting Machinery Inspectors (LMI) levels L2, L3, and L4.
The founder is the fourteenth successful candidate to be LMI registered, the first nine of the qualifying candidates forming a registering committee.
He is also an active member of The South African Institute of Mechanical Engineering (SAIMechE), and The Chamber of Engineering Technology/Lifting Equipment Association, of South Africa (CET/LEEASA)
He is a heavy lifting supervisor he rigs, operate and supervise in oil fields, live gas plants, harbours, off shore and industrial areas. The founder is also qualified and certified NDT Technician Level II, SNT-TC-1A.
Employees
R A K Technical Services provides a sufficient number of suitably qualified personnel, to ensure the quality of the service provided, and achievement of the standards and requirements.
They have many years of experience in their fields they are qualified, registered and certified.
- For Load Testing our personnel are ECSA LMI’s registered and comply with the engineering profession act number 46 of 2000 (Government Gazette No. 28605, 17 March 2006 Board Notice 15 of 2006).
- For NDT Our Personnel trained according to our written practice and are qualified and certified to an appropriate level in accordance with SNT-TC-1A, EN 473, ISO 9712
- For Training Operating & Rigging Our Assessors & Moderators are qualified and registered with the relevant Sector of Education & Training Authority.
- For the other specialised technical services our personnel are trained and have the sufficient experience