ISO 9606-1:2012规定了钢熔焊焊工资格测试的要求。 它为焊工的系统资格测试提供了一套技术规则，并使此类资格能够独立于产品类型、位置和检查员或检查机构而统一接受。 在评定焊工资格时，重点在于焊工手动操作焊条、焊炬或焊接吹管的能力，从而产生合格质量的焊缝。 ISO 9606-1:2012中提到的焊接工艺包括指定为手动或部分机械化焊接的熔焊工艺。它不包括全机械化和自动化焊接工艺。

ISO 9606-1:2012 specifies the requirements for qualification testing of welders for fusion welding of steels. It provides a set of technical rules for a systematic qualification test of the welder, and enables such qualifications to be uniformly accepted independently of the type of product, location and examiner or examining body. When qualifying welders, the emphasis is placed on the welder's ability manually to manipulate the electrode, welding torch or welding blowpipe, thereby producing a weld of acceptable quality. The welding processes referred to in ISO 9606-1:2012 include those fusion-welding processes which are designated as manual or partly mechanized welding. It does not cover fully mechanized and automated welding processes.