Risk Management & Quality Assurance Flashcards
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After a blast produces excessive fly-rock that damages nearby equipment, which is the FIRST step in a formal incident investigation?
Answer: Secure the scene and preserve physical evidence
Scene preservation is the critical first step — disturbing physical evidence before documentation destroys the factual basis for root cause analysis.
OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard (29 CFR 1910.119) applies to explosives facilities when:
Answer: The facility meets threshold quantities of listed highly hazardous chemicals
PSM coverage is triggered when a facility holds threshold quantities (TQs) of OSHA-listed highly hazardous chemicals, which can include certain explosive precursors.
A key performance indicator (KPI) used to measure QA effectiveness in an explosives distribution operation is:
Answer: Defective units returned as a percentage of units shipped
Return rate for defective product directly measures the quality of the distribution QA process — lower rates indicate better incoming inspection and handling practices.
Which risk treatment option is employed when a blasting contractor purchases insurance for the blasting operation?
Answer: Risk transfer
Purchasing insurance transfers the financial consequences of a risk event to a third party (the insurer) — the risk itself is not eliminated.
A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) assigns a Risk Priority Number (RPN) using which three factors?
Answer: Severity, Occurrence, Detection
RPN = Severity × Occurrence × Detection; this product ranks failure modes so engineering resources are directed to the highest-risk items first.
Under ATF regulations, records of explosive material transactions must be retained for a minimum of:
Answer: 5 years
27 CFR 555.127 requires licensed and permitted entities to retain acquisition and disposition records for five years from the date of the transaction.
A continual improvement cycle used in QA management systems that stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act is credited to:
Answer: Deming W.E.
The PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle, also called the Deming Cycle, was popularized by W. Edwards Deming and is fundamental to ISO 9001-based QA systems.