HOW MUCH QUALITY ASSURANCE?

Year
1988
Author(s)
Richard A. Beatty - Argonne National Laboratory
James H. Talboy - Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
he Argonne-Illinois quality assurance program is based on a consensus of the process we all use to achieve quality. The process for achieving quality is identifying the risks that an activity runs of not being successful, and selecting practices that eliminate the risks; in a word, determining how much quality assurance is enough. We will describe the approach to quality assurance that is nearly completely implemented and functioning at Argonne. We discuss the human factors built in to sustain the process and explain how those accountable for fostering quality assurance support