Our Company firmly believes in Quality and the concepts of Quality Assurance & Quality Control are well understood by us. The important concepts of these two terms are furnished below.
Total features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy the stated and implied needs.
All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or a service will satisfy given requirement for quality.
The Operational techniques and activities are used to fulfill the requirements for quality.
- Quality Assurance can be mainly attributed to the materials supplied to site and Quality control plan will be for conversion of material supplied to work.
-Quality Assurance starts from the ordering of the materials from our Purchase Department.
-The order to the suppliers will contain the entire specification as indicated in Bill of Quantity and as per the particular specification of the “Tender Document”.
-The Supplier will be given with strict instructions that the material supplied by the Supplier should be in accordance with the specification. For this, the supplier will be asked to produce necessary Type Test Certificate, Manuals and any other relevant document along with the materials supplied.
-After the initial order is given to the various suppliers, final working drawings will be collected from the Consultants/Clients and detailed assessment for each item of work will be made as per the schemes and as per the layout drawings – for example like Cable Schedule, Light Fitting Schedule, MCB DB schedule. Any changes in the schematic drawings of panels and the quantities and charges/amendments will be informed to the Supplier along with a copy to the Clients/Consultants.
-The materials supplied to the site, the material will be checked for the quantity mentioned in the Supplier’s invoice.
-All the materials received at site will be visually checked for any physical or mechanical damages and for missing or short supply items, the same will be reported to the Office to take necessary action.
-The materials received at site will be properly stored and identification tags will be provided before issuing the material for the work. The same will be physically checked and issued.
-For all the major equipment supplied by us, necessary factory test certificates, instruction manuals, wherever applicable will be documented and copy of the same along with the final as built drawings will be submitted to the consultants/clients for their records and maintenance.
-Size and colour coding of the wires as per the supplier’s invoice will be checked.
-Gauge of the wire will be checked.
-Continuity of the wire coil will be checked before issuing for work.
-Quantity as mentioned in the Invoice will be physically checked.
- Cat.Nos. of the light fittings mentioned on each case will be checked and properly stored as per the individual type of light fittings, so that it can be easily taken out for erection.
-Tubes and lamps will be separately stored.
-All DBs Switch Boards will be checked for their sizes/No. of ways as per order and as per BOQ.
-All the Switch Boards and DBs will be checked for physical correctness. If there is any damage or breakage, the same will be intimated to the Office for necessary corrections.
-Fabricated Switch Boards will be thoroughly inspected & tested at the fabricator’s workshop before it is dispatched to the site.
-For all L.T. Switch Boards, the fabricators general arrangement drawings as per the final schematic drawings issued will be submitted for approval to the Consultant’s / Clients.
-Any comments indicated in the Approved drawings will be incorporated and it will be resubmitted for final approvals and all these will be documented.
-revised final approved drawings will be submitted to the consultants and clients.
-After the panel boards are fabricated, the final ‘as built’ drawings will be submitted to the consultants and clients for their records.
All of us are aware about the direct costs of accidents, but there are indirect or hidden costs of accidents, which can have an adverse effect on productivity. More than the cost, the human life involved, is most concerned. An awareness of this basic fact is essential while implementing an effective prevention programme. Let every construction engineer adopt safety precautions as part of the job. They must practice the safety precautions, till they are accustomed.
» Determining a suitable course of action in day to day activities for the effective implementation of the safety programme.
» Meeting regularly, atleast once in a fortnight, to discuss and decide the ways and means to eliminate the factors affecting the safety programme.
» Inspecting the site, twice a week, to locate the unsafe working conditions and locations.
» Investigating all accidents and strengthening the safety programme by additional precautions if any, on the basis of accidents investigations.
» Planning the requirements for the first aid, fire fighting and safety appliances well in advance and maintaining them in good condition.
» Site supervisors should eliminate all unsafe conditions in their area of the work.
» They should keep the work area neat, clean and free from loose material especially at upper floors.
» Safety precautions play a vital role in protecting workmen from injury during execution of job.
» Some of the important safety kits are listed below. They must be in good condition.
» Safety Helmets – Use where work is going on at different levels.
» Safety belts – Used for workmen working on height, on exterior sides of the building.
» Hand gloves – Used for Materials handling, gas cutter, welding machine etc.
» Safety goggles – Used for gas welding, grinding, pavement breaking etc.
» Safety Shoes – For asphalting, cutting hard rock, concreting works etc.
» Insertion of the loose wires in sockets without a plug pin. This is the most common practice, and the cause of most of the Electrical Accidents at construction sites. As the insertion of loose wires is mostly done by the unskilled helpers or carpenters, fitters, etc.
»The insertion of earthing wire (green wire) lead into live terminal of socket which passes the current directly into the equipment, and ultimately the person holding the equipment gets the shock.
» Avoiding the use of gloves while working on live line.
» Improper joining of the cables and the wires
» Exposed switches
» Switch plug socket units installed in the open area, without any protection from rain. Etc