Archive for December, 2005
on the waterfront…
It’s not enough to be flexible, one must be fluid.
Filed under Work : Comments (0) : Dec 14th, 2005
oops…
It wasn’t us…
In July of 2005, “the supervisor” conducted an audit of KTR’s NDT and welding qualification system. Subsequent to the assessment, KTR’s new level III examiner continued further review and found that a level II NDT inspector did not have a current certification. 443 piping joints were immediately de-certified and a Method “D” Corrective Action Request was issued.
A Method “D” CAR comes from the C.O. of the base. It essentially means, fix it, and/or get the fuck off my base. There isn’t an “E”.
KTR’s Q.A. program was also de-certified and the contractor was unable to perform ANY work for the supervisor for 4 months.
Several Major Non-conformities were issued to keep the fleet running. KTR’s first action was to de-certify all NDT inspectors and re-train everyone.
If that isn’t a million dollar fuck-up, I don’t know what is. A “near miss” can cost 30 people, 3 hours each. I can only imagine the amount of blood on the floor after something like that.
Ahhhh, the joy of government contracting.
Filed under Work : Comments (0) : Dec 14th, 2005
