Standard Inspection Procedure

Level II North American Standard Inspection Procedure... 

A Level VI Inspection is a higher (or stricter) inspection standard than the regular Level I North American Standard inspection procedures and Out-of-Service Criteria. It is adopted and intended for use only on select shipments of radioactive material. 

NOTE Refer to the North American Standard Inspection Procedure for Performance-Based Brake Testing (PBBT). 

Inspection manuals were exteremly useful in keeping the inspectors informed on government policies and procedures, but they were not intended to serve as guides for individual inspectors working on specific items. For that purpose the Inspection Division, OC CWS, prepared individual standard inspection procedures. A standard inspection procedure described the item, specified the parts to be inspected and the tools or instruments needed to accomplish the inspection, and finally, indicated where pertinent how the item would be proof tested, inspected for surveillance, and packaged. 

At the start of the war the CWS had compiled very little literature to assist its inspectors in carrying out their day-to-day operations. To fill this need the Inspection Division, OC CWS, inaugurated the practice of writing a Standard Inspection Procedure (SIP) for each CW end item. The SIP described the item and its use, how it was made, and how it functioned. It went on to specify the parts of the item to be inspected, the tools or instruments to be used in carrying out the inspection, and it finally outlined such matters as proof testing, surveillance procedures, and packaging. The bulk of the SIP s on the CW items were prepared and circulated by the summer of 1944. ... 

Once the feasibility of using real time X-ray as an inspection method was established, it was decided to proceed with the design of a system equally suited for control of incoming frozen fish blocks and for developing inspection procedures. These inspection procedures are, when completed, to be the basis of the inspection standards for the complete concern. 

RCRA incinerator regulations include adrninistrative as weU as performance standards. Administrative standards include procedures for waste analysis, inspection of equipment, monitoring, and facihty security. Steps needed to meet adrninistrative standards are outlined ia the permit apphcation performance standards are demonstrated during a trial bum. Trial bum operating conditions are included in the permit to assure ongoing compliance with the performance standards. Performance standards include destmction and removal efficiency (DRE), particulate emissions limits, products of incomplete combustion emission limits, metal emission limits, and HCl and Cl emission limits (see Exhaust CONTROL, INDUSTRIAL). 

Metals and alloys do not respond alike to aU the influences of the many factors that are involved in corrosion. Consequently, it is impractical to establish any universal standard laboratoiy procedures for corrosion testing except for inspection tests. However, some details of laboratory testing need careful attention in order to achieve useful results. 

Operating procedures prescribe how specific tasks are to be performed. Subcategories of these procedures may include test procedures, inspection procedures, installation procedures, etc. These should reference the standards and guides (see below) which are needed to carry out the task, document the results, and contain the forms to be used on which to record information. 

The visual field inspection of derrick or mast and substructure procedure is recommended for use by operating personnel (or a designated representative) to the extent that its use satisfies conditions for which an inspection is intended. A sample report form for this inspection procedure can be found in API Standard 4F. Forms are also available from International Association of Drilling Contractors (lADC). 

New tubing is delivered free of injurious defects as defined in API Standard 5A, SAC and SAX, and within the practical limits of the inspection procedures therein prescribed. Some users have found that, for a limited number of critical well applications, these procedures do not result in casing sufficiently free of defects to meet their needs for such critical applications. Various nondestructive inspection services have been employed by users to assure that the desired quality of tubing is being run. In view of this practice, it is suggested that the individual user ... 

The major engineering insurance companies are recognized as competent independent inspection authorities having a range of services, which they have developed during many years of service to the engineering industry, and therefore the following inspection procedures indicate many of the standard inspection services in use. However, special inspection procedures are frequently drawn... 

Laboratory apparatus should be periodically inspected, cleaned, maintained, and calibrated according to standard operating procedures. 

The principles of GLP require an independent quality assurance (QA) program to ensure that the study is being conducted in compliance with GLP. The QA personnel cannot overlap with those of the study because of the potential conflict of interest, but they may be part-time staff if the size of the study does not warrant a full-time QA section. The responsibilities of the QA unit are to maintain copies of plans, standard operating procedures, and in particular the master schedule of the study, and to verily, in writing, that these conform to GLP. The QA unit is responsible for inspections and audits, which must be documented and the results made available to the study director and the principal investigator. The QA unit also signs off on the final report. Any problems discovered or corrective action that is recommended by the unit must be documented and followed up. 

The written Standard Operating Procedures required under 58.81(b)(ll) shall set forth in sufficient detail the methods, materials, and schedules to be used in the routine inspection, cleaning, maintenance, testing, calibration, and/or standardization of equipment, and shall specify, when appropriate, remedial action to be taken in the event of failure or malfunction of equipment. The written standard operating procedures shall designate the person responsible for the performance of each operation. 

Written records shall be maintained of all inspection, maintenance, testing, calibrating and/or standardizing operations. These records, containing the date of the operation, shall describe whether the maintenance operations were routine and followed the written standard operating procedure. 

Since 1998, all medical devices marketed in Europe (EEA) must bear the CE mark, which signifies conformity to the essential requirements of the MDD. The MDD harmonized the European requirements along with device certification and the inspection procedures for manufacturers to ensure the highest degree of safety and product quality of the medical devices throughout the EC. Most important was the requirement for a full quality assurance system (Annex II of the MDD, 93/42/EEC), which included design controls for new medical device products. This was in line with the ISO 9000 series of standards established for quality systems by the International Organization for Standardization. 

Quality Assurance is the system of monitoring, inspecting, and auditing which assures that the work is documented and conducted according to protocol and the laboratories standard operating procedures from the conception of a study to the review of the final report. 

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are required for all routine activities that are critical to the successful outcome of the study including quality assurance procedures and inspections. Most of the SOPs for the field activities are written by the field scientists with guidance from the Quality Assurance Section. For the field activities, it is required that at each site there be SOPs for such things as how field plots are established and the plot boundaries marked, the maintenance of sample freezers, how to calibrate and maintain chemical balances and chemical application equipment, and how to obtain test chemicals. If an SOP for a critical item of equipment is not available, the study would be considered to be not in compliance with the principles of the GLP guidelines. The distribution of SOPs is carefully controlled so that when an SOP is changed, all outdated copies can be exchanged for the new version. 

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