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Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Cost of Quality (COQ)

Answer

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

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) briefing

Answer

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.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Active monitoring with a prepared mitigation plan

Answer

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.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

300 Log Electronic Reporting (ITA Portal)

Answer

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

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

p-chart

Answer

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

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