A planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate confidence that requirements are properly established and products or services conforms to specified requirements. The process will make the quality of our services when compared with applicable standard and the action taken in conformance with standard quality assurance and control. To establish and evaluate the process and product measurement programs are setup to identify weaknesses in the process and create rooms for improvement and standing up to the responsibility on quality targets to be achieved in relation to the customers’ projects technical and contractual requirements. The specific assignments and responsibilities of the involved personnel incharge for specific procedures, methods and work instructions to be applied, methods for dealing with revisions and changes of the QAQC during the progress of the project, reference to inspection check sheets for each construction discipline.
Quality Assurance Team Policy and Procedures Manual revised. Updated Manual Overview and Process Overview to clarify which information resources projects are addressed. Updated Manual for project management practices to coincide with graphical process names and identifiers. Updated QA Actions to Corrective Action Plan. Updated Policy Statements to clarify project accountability for projects involving procurement. Updated Select Projects to clarify non-monitored projects must still adhere to Framework requirements. Updated Assess Project Performance to remove references to Project Plan and four separate plans (tools). Updated Project Review Meetings to clarify identification of meeting participants. Updated Contact Information with current information.
Quality Control (QC) is a system of routine technical activities, to measure and control the quality of the inventory as it is being developed. The QC system is designed to:
QC activities include general methods such as accuracy checks on data acquisition and calculations and the use of approved standardized procedures for project calculations, measurements, estimating uncertainties, archiving information and reporting. Higher tier QC activities include technical reviews of source categories, activity and emission factor data, and methods. Quality Assurance (QA) activities include a planned system of review procedures conducted by personnel not directly involved in the inventory compilation/development process. Reviews, preferably by independent third parties, should be performed upon a finalized inventory following the implementation of QC procedures. Reviews verify that data quality objectives were met, ensure that the inventory represents the best possible estimates of process and sinks given the current state of scientific knowledge and data available, and support the effectiveness of the QC programme. A QA/QC plan is a fundamental element of a QA/QC system, and it is good practice to develop one. The plan should, in general, outline QA/QC activities that will be implemented, and include a scheduled time frame that follows inventory preparation from its initial development through to final reporting in any year. It should contain an outline of the processes and schedule to review all source categories. The QA/QC plan is an internal document to organize, plan, and implement QA/QC activities. Once developed, it can be referenced and used in subsequent inventory preparation, or modified as appropriate (i.e. when changes in processes occur or on advice of independent reviewers). This plan should be available for external review.
The quality assurance/quality control manual addresses the following: