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rlik General Engineering and Environmental Management Services <br />• Instructions, Procedures and Drawings - Establishes and describes requirements for the content, <br />development, review, and approval of instructions, procedures, and drawings. Requirements pertaining to <br />control and issuance are also included. <br />• Professional Services - Control measures are also established for professional services that involve reports, <br />studies, investigations, permits, environmental audits and assessments. Control measures are implemented <br />from the initial project establishment stage through completion of the project. The purpose is to provide <br />documented controls over quality activities and establish quality standards, performance objectives and <br />technical requirements. Verification activities are conducted to control deviations from standards and <br />procedures, and instructions are provided for the review of quality activities for the accuracy and completeness <br />of services. Requirements address project calculations, use of computer, programs, design verification, <br />preparation, dissemination and use of the project guide, QC reviews, data analysis, and data validation. <br />• Procurement Document Control - Establishes and describes requirements for initiating and controlling <br />documents for procuring project - related items and professional services. Controls are established for the review <br />of procurement documents to determine whether quality requirements are correctly stated, inspectable and <br />controllable and that adequate acceptance and rejection criteria have been prepared, reviewed and approved in <br />accordance with QA Program requirements. <br />• Document Control - Establishes and describes requirements for the control, identification, review, approval, <br />and issuance of documents and changes thereto. Control measures are established so that quality <br />requirements are adequate and appropriately stated prior to issuance and implementation. Obsolete or <br />superseded (outdated) documents will be removed and /or replaced by applicable revisions to prevent <br />inadvertent use. <br />• Control of Processes - Establishes and describes requirements for the control of processes. The documented <br />formal instructions, procedures, drawings, checklists or other appropriate mechanisms that have been <br />established as control measures, provide guidelines for quality assurance oversight by qualified personnel. <br />• Inspection - Establishes and describes inspection requirements. Inspection is conducted as a verification <br />activity to document that activities, including prior inspections, are properly completed in accordance with <br />documented instructions in procedures. <br />• Corrective Actions - Establishes and describes corrective action measures for promptly identifying, <br />documenting and correcting conditions adverse to quality. Corrective actions implemented are documented and <br />reported to management. Requirements for the administration of corrective action requests are included. <br />• Quality Assurance Records - Establishes and describes requirements for the identification, generation, <br />maintenance, and storage of QA documents related to project activities. Requirements for control of records and <br />project master files are included. <br />• Audits - Establishes and describes requirements for audits and surveillance. These are conducted in order to <br />verify implementation of the QA Program, document compliance, and determine where corrective action is <br />needed. <br />• Procedures - Quality review procedures are ongoing, minimizing changes upon final inspection. Standard <br />practices include the following: <br />• Independent quality review by senior technical managers, representing each major discipline with day -to- <br />day involvement in a project. <br />• Management Information System, which maps out project activities by phase, discipline, and task. All <br />project activities are updated on a bi- weekly basis. This enables close monitoring of each manageable work <br />element (MWE). <br />Page 54 fal <br />