Quality Control and Safety During Construction
Abstract
Construction sites has through the years been subjected to injuries, accidents and faults. Budgets and deadlines are not kept, because of inadequate planning, errors, and poorly executed work. To satisfy customers requirements and to emphasise the importance of security, construction firms are now dedicating increasingly amounts of resources to prevent this. Political and private initiatives have made quality control a separate field in construction. This article will look at how quality control is used, the benefits and values of it and which supporting activities are used.
Definition: Quality Control
Quality Control is often associated with Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Management Systems (QMS). They all correlate and depend on each other all thought there are different definitions. The American Society of Quality have made the following definitions of the terms:[1]
Quality Assurance is: “All the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system that can be demonstrated to provide confidence that a product or service will fulfil requirements for quality.”
Quality Control is: “The operational techniques and activities used to fulfil requirements for quality.”
Thus, the difference between them is mainly that the QA is everything evolving the QC such as documentation, planning and the supporting activities around QC, while QC is the actual controlling part. Together QA and QC are parts of the QMS.
