About NDT Humor

NDT Humor is a home for the jokes that only make sense after a night shift on a scaffold with a dying battery. NDT Humor is run by Focaltek Inspection LLC, an NDT and inspection training and services company.

The archive opened with 1,390 original jokes sorted by topic, type of humor and industry. A new Joke of the Day is added every morning. Members can post their own jokes, vote for the ones that make them laugh and join the forum.

Clean Humor for All Ages

Every joke on NDT Humor is clean and fine for all ages, so you can share it with your crew, your boss or your kids. Member jokes are checked by a moderator before they appear. Read the Community Standards before you post.

Laughing Is Good for You (Seriously)

NDT is serious work, and the people who do it carry a lot of responsibility. A good laugh is a healthy break. Research suggests laughter can ease stress in the short term by stimulating circulation and helping muscles relax [1]. A brain-imaging study found that laughing together with other people releases the brain’s own feel-good chemicals, called endorphins [2]. A review of laughter-therapy studies found they helped with depression, while noting that more research is needed [3].

A joke isn’t medical care. If stress or low mood is weighing on you, talk with your doctor or a licensed counselor.

Sources

  1. Mayo Clinic Staff. “Stress Relief from Laughter? It’s No Joke.” Mayo Clinic. mayoclinic.org
  2. Sandra Manninen, Lauri Tuominen, Robin Dunbar and others. “Social Laughter Triggers Endogenous Opioid Release in Humans.” Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 37, no. 25, 2017, pp. 6125–6131. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0688-16.2017
  3. C. Natalie van der Wal and Robin N. Kok. “Laughter-Inducing Therapies: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 232, 2019, pp. 473–488. doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.02.018

Technically Accurate, Mostly

The jokes are written to get the physics and the practice right, because this audience notices. If you spot an error, tell us in the Site Feedback forum.

Serious NDT Resources

Okay, back to work. These are the real deal.

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