Before a QA/QC Engineer starts his or her work on a newly opened project he or she must initially take the time to read the important project documents constituted on the project.
The QA/QC Engineer shall ask the documents from his Quality Manager if no any documents available at his or her hand.
The QA/QC Engineer may also approach the project document controller to request a copy of important company documents, that he or she needs to study.
Here are the important documents that a QA/QC Engineer must read before the start of the project:
1. Specification
The specification is a set of requirements or detailed description of work to be done, materials to be used in a project.
It is given to the contractor from the employer on the tendering period. It is filed in the document controller office ready for any site staff to request a copy.
These project documents shall be the first one to read by the QA/QC Engineer. It is a daily partner of a qa/qc engineer, and you can imagine how the construction specification could help you build a huge project by just following this document.
2. Project Quality Plan
A plan that describes the responsibilities, functions, and procedures to be followed in a project, to meet the project’s quality control requirements.
The Project Quality Plan shall be made by the Quality Manager of the project and it shall be submitted to the Engineers for approval before the commencements of any activity on site. It is a guide-book of a project.
3. Construction Drawings
This is a plan or sketches of the project. The QA/QC Engineer must read and study the drawings carefully.
The drawing has four categories, Structural, Architectural, Electrical, Mechanical including Heating Ventilation and Air-conditioning ( HVAC ).
Why it is said “carefully” because in the general notes it is sometimes written there the most important requirements especially in the structural drawing. Highlight the most important lines to easily trackback when you want to read it again.
4. Scope of Works
Scope of works is a document of the detailed activity and material to be used in a project. You should also consider reading this project document so you’ll have an idea of what your project is all about.
The scope of work document can be requested from your technical manager, he has this document in hand.
5. Bill of Quantity or BOQ
This also one of the important project documents that you should try reading before you start work. The bill of quantity is the detailed list of materials that your construction team has to be installed on site. It also includes the pricing of each material and its lumpsum price.
You can get this document from the quantity surveying department of your project. I also discussed this matter in the quality engineers academy.
So, if you read your bill of quantity, you will have a clear idea of what materials are you going to install and eventually inspect. A quality engineer should read this bill of the quantity project document.
6. Quality Procedure
A quality procedure is a document where you will learn the procedures of how a document to be fabricated until its approval and use on site.
This is document also shows the procedure of inspection, where the inspection starts, and when it will be completed and approved. So, an engineer should read this carefully because this also a guide of a quality procedure in a project.
7. Quality Policy and Quality Objective
These documents are the quality policy and quality objectives of your company. You should take the time to read and post it on your office. So, as a qa/qc engineer, you have to keep and maintain these documents as these are sometimes asked in the 3rd-party audit.
Other documents such as Quality Manual, Methos Statement, Inspection and Test Plan, etc. These are the company documents that a QA/QC Engineer must also read.
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1Project Quality Plan
2Quality Procedures
3Quality Policy and Quality Objective
4Qality Manual
I am little confused here
What i know that each company or organization is Having a Quality Policy and Quality Objectives for their entire company projects which is No. 03
Each project is having its different unique quality and specification so the quality manager is edeting the Company quality policy to accomodate that specific project to meets its quality specifications which is No. 01
Is what i have explained right?
Is No 04 is same No. 3?
Is No 2 part of No 1?
good job !
From where to buy wc book sir?
Please Noel can you send me copies of PQP, Quality Manual, Quality policy, and documents a material engineer must possess
Hi Noel,
Can you send me a PQP for editing?
Here is my email [email protected]
Thanks
I have no credit card, how can I buy books?
Sir Noel, which one do we need to prepare first? The project forms or the project quality plan?
The Project Quality Plan, but don’t worry that would be prepared by your quality manager and the project forms will follow and remember that forms will be attached with the PQP when you’ll submit it. So project forms are the next thing to do.
Dear Noel
Myself Shiva, I am working as a Qa/Qc Engineer ( Civil / Arch ) in Qatar.
Can you suggest me the useful courses to upgrade our knowledge in the field of quality controlling?
Hi Engr Noel. Is PQP a live document?
Hello Jesse,
What do you mean of “live?” If you try to mean it is usable, yes it is. As what I have mentioned that it is the book of the project. The most interesting part of PQP is the Quality Procedures, it includes of Inspection Request, Material, Audit, NCR etc. And follows any other important procedures.
What I mean is living document that can be edited and updated?
Yes it can be updated. Imagine that we have 7 revisions of PQP in our current project.
Thank you for the reply.
I would like to request if you can provide the step by step procedure regarding material submittals and if you are in the consultant side what are the points to review and recommend approval.
Live but until the final approval, after approval from the engineer it will be considered as dead.
I was looking for the mechanical method statements which I couldn’t find. Can you please show me sample for such activity?
Regards
I will write a book about that later. Just watch for it.
Give me a full description of NCR (Non Conformation Report). What is NCR?
Why it is necessary on site?
In which situation it is used?
How is the format of NCR?
For what purpose they are preparing NCR on site specially in QC Inspectors department?
Please give me a brief detail for all.
Thank you
I write an article about your questions. Just watch for it. Thanks for stopping by.
Dear Sir. I am very much interested in Quality work so please update things.
Yes Prasad. I am doing that, I am currently writing another article about cracks on concrete. Just visit also our Fb page.
I would like to thanks a lot for this site that allow us as a new QC at site to be 3x ahead of the time. God bless you sir for sharing your knowledge with us. Sir can you send us pdf file. Thanks a lot in advance.
Welcome! I really want to help those new Engineers who would like to become Quality Engineer. I will embed a PDF file later so that anybody can easily downloaded. 🙂 Thanks.
What are the meaning of the ff. mts, mir, tq, mos, itp & ncr?
Hi Omar,
MTS is Material Transmittal Sheet
MIR is Material Inspection Report
TQ is Technical Querry
MOS I think you are trying to say MS Method Statement
ITP is Inspection and Test Plan
NCR is Nonconformance Report
Thanks,
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