As someone who works in a regulated industry as well - I got a chuckle out of a “single QAQC event.” It’s factually correct, just stripped of any severity context. I often have to deal with the flip side of “falsification of data” when the mistake is completely innocuous. It sounds far worse than it actually is in most cases.
As someone who works in a regulated industry as well - I got a chuckle out of a “single QAQC event.” It’s factually correct, just stripped of any severity context. I often have to deal with the flip side of “falsification of data” when the mistake is completely innocuous. It sounds far worse than it actually is in most cases.
And there are a lot of industries out there who do QAQC via "batch testing." The bolt carrier groups of the rifles I was issued in the Marine Corps, think they pressure/magnet inspect every single one to make sure they don't accidently blow up in the face of the Marine firing the rifle? Lol... you don't get to a unit price of ~$650 per rifle that way. They'd check one BCG out of every 100 at best via "batch testing" and call all 100 BCGs good based off of testing just the 1/100. The more stringent the testing requirements are, the more expensive the unit costs are. And in *most* industries it's important to remember that your parts and equipment were made by the lowest bidder so that the guys at the top of the profit chain can maximize their gains. And the longer the parts are designed to last, the more likely that QAQC ain't going to live up to that acquisition/retention lifetime.
It was always fun explaining to people why things like the half inch globe valve installed in one of the ship's nuclear systems cost $40,000 rather than the $5 they could get it for at the hardware store.
Our QAQC requirements were out of this world.
I was QAQC qualified, radcon qualified, environmental monitor qualified, plus a several other things, some of it specifically one time for this job because no one has EVER done this before kind of stuff (ask me about core-installed reactor plant chemical cleaning, go ahead, I dare you--I can't answer though because... classified, LOL). That was some scary stuff.
I did a lot of paperwork, wrote a lot of the work orders/procedures--and God forbid you get something wrong. Definate career ender. I spent more time doing the paperwork than the actual work.
Yea, whenever people talk about how scary nuclear power is I tell them to look at the Navy's nuclear program. They've been operating reactors under the crushing depths of the ocean since the 1950's without any nuclear disaster incidents. That's because Admiral Hymen Rickover made the program stringent as shit and it's stayed that way to this day.
As someone who works in a regulated industry as well - I got a chuckle out of a “single QAQC event.” It’s factually correct, just stripped of any severity context. I often have to deal with the flip side of “falsification of data” when the mistake is completely innocuous. It sounds far worse than it actually is in most cases.
And there are a lot of industries out there who do QAQC via "batch testing." The bolt carrier groups of the rifles I was issued in the Marine Corps, think they pressure/magnet inspect every single one to make sure they don't accidently blow up in the face of the Marine firing the rifle? Lol... you don't get to a unit price of ~$650 per rifle that way. They'd check one BCG out of every 100 at best via "batch testing" and call all 100 BCGs good based off of testing just the 1/100. The more stringent the testing requirements are, the more expensive the unit costs are. And in *most* industries it's important to remember that your parts and equipment were made by the lowest bidder so that the guys at the top of the profit chain can maximize their gains. And the longer the parts are designed to last, the more likely that QAQC ain't going to live up to that acquisition/retention lifetime.
It was always fun explaining to people why things like the half inch globe valve installed in one of the ship's nuclear systems cost $40,000 rather than the $5 they could get it for at the hardware store.
Our QAQC requirements were out of this world.
I was QAQC qualified, radcon qualified, environmental monitor qualified, plus a several other things, some of it specifically one time for this job because no one has EVER done this before kind of stuff (ask me about core-installed reactor plant chemical cleaning, go ahead, I dare you--I can't answer though because... classified, LOL). That was some scary stuff.
I did a lot of paperwork, wrote a lot of the work orders/procedures--and God forbid you get something wrong. Definate career ender. I spent more time doing the paperwork than the actual work.
Yea, whenever people talk about how scary nuclear power is I tell them to look at the Navy's nuclear program. They've been operating reactors under the crushing depths of the ocean since the 1950's without any nuclear disaster incidents. That's because Admiral Hymen Rickover made the program stringent as shit and it's stayed that way to this day.
I watched people lose their jobs and rank over some of the smallest shit. But there was a reason for that.