Any condition which renders an item unacceptable or indeterminate for use because it does not comply with the Code, the Alberta Safety Codes Act, the Owner's specification, design specifications, or Quality Management System Manual. Examples of nonconformities include physical defects, test failures, improper documentation, loss of material identification, and deviations from drawings, specifications, or procedures.
The document used for identifying, documenting, resolving, and preventing nonconformities found during material receiving, construction, repair or alteration, examination, or testing.
The RFI / NCR Coordinator is a representative from the project team that is responsible to direct the created RFI / NCR to appropriate parties (Technical Reviewers for RFI & Responsible parties for NCR).
Project Administrator(s) is the person that has the level of access above than a normal user on a project in the Ethos application. The project administrator can help set up users and their roles and responsibilities on a project. The project administrator also can override certain actions as needed in the RFI / NCR process when required.
Responsible Party(s) in the NCR process is the party responsible for the nonconformity and the associated corrective action. Responsible Party(s) is responsible to propose a Recommended Disposition for the NCR(s) issued.
NCR Acceptors are the individuals responsible for accepting the disposition of the NCR. Issuer and Responsible party should both act as Acceptors to agree upon disposition for the NCR. All other parties that may be interested to accept the NCR disposition can also be added as an acceptor.
Cost code associated with the cost that the company is not directly responsible for (For example: a cost code that captures your quality personnel monitoring and inspecting rework to subcontractor’s rework is a cost to your project team that the company is not liable for and would be passed on to the subcontractor).