LEARN ABOUT OUR QA/QC PROGRAMS

Quality Assurance & Quality Control of Projects

PO&M has developed written QA/QC programs to provide guidance and consistency to its services. We have developed programs for:

Construction
Commissioning & Start-Up

Construction:

PO&M’s construction QA/QC program consists of general guidelines and specific check-out procedures. The objectives of this program are to:

1. Ensure best practices are applied to PO&M’s methods and procedures
2. Ensure long term reliability and availability goals are achieved for the plant systems and equipment
3. Ensure that vendor and service provider contractual obligations are met
4. Ensure that code requirements are met
5. Ensure that workmanship is high standard
6. Provides management and administrative procedures for documentation control and for correspondence control and administration of hard copy and electronic filing systems
7. Ensure that a consistent approach is applied by the QA/QC persons

This program is continual work-in-progress, being updated with new regulations, code items, and lessons learned from recent projects.

Commissioning & Start-Up:

PO&M’s Commissioning and Start-Up program consists of procedures, checklists, and our detailed approach to managing the commissioning and start-up activities. It contains:

1. Pre-commissioning activities
2. Turnover package management
3. Punch list management
4. Safety Policies and procedures
5. Documentation
6. Check-out sheets, typical commissioning procedures designed to ensure design specifications have been met by the construction activities
7. Static and Dynamic testing procedures
8. Start-Up scheduling requirements
9. Punch Listing
10. Turnover package management
11. Guidelines for commissioning methods, sequencing, and procedures
 
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