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Safety, Quality Control & Risk Management Flashcards

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  1. What quality management concept describes the total cost of preventing, detecting, and correcting defective work?

    Answer: Cost of Quality (COQ)

    Cost of Quality (COQ) encompasses prevention costs, appraisal costs, and failure costs (both internal and external) associated with achieving or not achieving quality.

  2. A construction manager conducts a pre-task planning meeting before each high-risk activity. This practice is BEST described as:

    Answer: Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) briefing

    A JHA (or JSA) briefing reviews task steps and associated hazards with workers before starting work, making it the best description of targeted pre-task planning.

  3. In a risk probability-impact matrix, a risk scored as 'High' probability and 'Low' impact typically warrants which response?

    Answer: Active monitoring with a prepared mitigation plan

    High-probability, low-impact risks are typically monitored actively with mitigation plans ready, as their likelihood makes them likely to materialize even if individual impacts are manageable.

  4. Which OSHA program requires employers with 250 or more employees to electronically submit injury and illness data annually?

    Answer: 300 Log Electronic Reporting (ITA Portal)

    OSHA's Injury Tracking Application (ITA) requires establishments with 250+ employees to submit OSHA 300A summary data electronically each year.

  5. What statistical quality control tool plots the percentage of defective items over time to reveal trends and special causes of variation?

    Answer: p-chart

    A p-chart (proportion chart) is a statistical process control chart that monitors the fraction of nonconforming items in a sample over time.

  6. Under CERCLA (Superfund), who bears primary liability for cleanup costs at a contaminated construction site?

    Answer: Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs), which may include current and past owners

    CERCLA imposes strict, joint and several liability on a broad class of Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs), including current and former owners, operators, and waste generators.

  7. A project team uses a FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) during design. What is the primary output of this process?

    Answer: Risk Probability Number (RPN) scores prioritizing failure modes

    FMEA produces Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs) by multiplying severity, occurrence, and detectability ratings, allowing teams to prioritize which failure modes to address first.