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For construction industry: Quality Assurance and Quality Control play major roles to ensure that the final results meet the requirements agreed, and that such results were achieved in the best way. This the general purpose and target of all quality teams. To meet such target, QC/QA teams can utilize risk management techniques, in order to find out about possible faults and flaws in the system as early as possible. One should always understands the word "Risk" in terms of "Uncertainties", each uncertain event that can affect the quality of final result or the processes to be followed on site is a concern for quality team and should be identified and registered as early as possible, also there will be a need to pick up a strategy to deal with it once it takes place in reality. Risk Management offers various techniques that can help quality team to detect and monitor such uncertainties such as; documents review, brainstorming among team and including other involved parties (specially designers and contractors Rep.), plus many other techniques.
For example; during execution of a project, an uncertainty about the weather condition during large scale of concrete pouring was identified. There is a possibility that an extreme hot temperature may take place during the period of pouring. Such uncertainty "Risk" may affect quality of concrete among other attributes. So, Quality Assurance team would want to review the requirements of pouring in such weather, and find out possible treatments that should be added to concrete or to be used on site, double check that the contractor is aware of it, and ensure (as early as possible) that such treatments or admixtures to be used will be available, in case it would be required. Without identifying the risk earlier than execution date, the team will have to face the problem on spot, without a plan, and may be without enough knowledge about possible solutions to face it.
Risk Management can help quality teams to be prepared to face issues before it exist to avoid conflicts and poor results.
