Program Quality Verification inspection

Government Institutes, Inc., 1993, ISBN 0-86587-336-4, 120 pages, 49. This OSHA Inspection manual covers process safety management (PSM) compliance guidelines, PSM audit guidelines, clarifications and interpretations of the PSM standard, and SIC codes targeted for the program quality verification inspections. 

OSHA has its own protocol for inspections (Instruction CPL 2-2.45A). It is based on the Program-Quality-Verification (PQV) inspection method. 

Program Quality Verification (PQV) Inspection Scheduling Scope of PQV Inspections PQV Inspection Procedures... 

Quality assurance is part of the regulations specified by the national standards organizations such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Quality assurance applies to any material or component or a fabricated structure in the sense that their satisfactory performance in service conditions is assured. The quality assurance and control programs in Canada are contained in Canadian Standards Association document CAN3-Z 299.1-85 consisting of four parts. The four parts of the standard are such that Part 1 covers quality assurance, Part 2 refers to quality control, Part 3 refers to quality verification, and Part 4 deals with quality inspection. 

Product verification requires inspection and testing programs to confirm that product meets the quality requirements. In PSM and ESH terms, the product is the management of environmental, health and safety issues and may be difficult to separate from measurement (Chapter 7) and Audit. 

The owner s Inspector is responsible to the owner to verify that all required examinations, inspections, and testing are complete. The owner s Inspector verifies that all required certifications and records have been completed. Also, the owner s Inspector is responsible for verification of the construction organization s quality systems program implementation. 

Audits by a quality unit within the organization are routine checks of the stability program and include verification of the data collected for the studies presented in reports. In addition, the regulatory agencies will do inspections (PAI) of programs and facilities for a specific product or as a routine inspection of a facility (general GMP inspection). 

To accommodate the 5,000 samples that were anticipated annually, SAL was to become part of a network of analytical laboratories (NWAL), along with existing laboratories nominated by member states for this purpose at the request of the IAEA. This approach was selected for reasons of economy and flexibility of services, but also because it provided the possibility of checking the accuracy of the analyses of actual inspection samples by comparing results obtained by different verification laboratories. Such an intercomparison was to become an important feature of the quality control program that the IAEA maintains to ensure the quality of measurements made by SAL and the network. Other safeguards systems operate in a similar way, which indeed strengthen the credibility of the verification measurements. After the successful completion of the PAFEX-1 and PAFEX-2 tests, IAEA NWAL became operational in 1975 (O Fig. 63.14). 

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