PDC has been a recognized leader in the quality assurance field since our company's beginning. We have successfully applied recognized standards to develop quality assurance programs for clients in a wide variety of industries. PDC provides total quality assurance program support to our clients encompassing all of the following areas.

Requirements Analysis

• Evaluating all requirements documents applicable to the client's organization or operation, determining which requirements apply and to what degree they apply, and recommending how clients can best implement those requirements within their own management framework.
• Summarizing existing client procedures and mapping them to the controlling directives and orders in a Required Implementation Matrix (RIM) to illustrate their degree of compliance.
• Recommending what new system controls and imeplementing procedures are needed.

Program Development

• Determining quality assurance requirements applicable to the particular operation.
• Evaluating existing quality achieving and quality assuring activities.
• Preparing quality assurance plans or program descriptions to integrate requirements with existing controls.
• Determining the need for new and/or revised procedures and assisting in preparing them.
• Establishing a graded approach, where appropriate, to apply more extensive controls to higher risk activities.

Implementation

• Implementing quality assurance programs in accordance with applicable standards.
• Providing implementation documents such as:
  • Quality assurance program descriptions, plans, and procedures
  • RIMs
  • Evaluation and assessment plans
  • Schedules
• Developing quality management systems for environmental, safety, health (ES&H), and remedial action programs using the applicable ES&H standards.

Evaluation and Assessment

• Identifying requirements, developing schedules, assisting in evaluations independently or on a team, documenting and analyzing results, evaluating and tracking corrective actions, analyzing quality trends, and developing program improvement plans.
• Conducting assessments, audits, surveillances, reviews, appraisals, and procurement surveys.
• Identifying requirements and developing schedules.
• Assisting in managing and coordinating corrective action programs in response to evaluations and assessments.

Throughout the process of quality assurance program development and implementation, PDC obtains and encourages full participation from client operating personnel and management. Our approach fosters team building, which results in increased quality awareness and assures our client's ultimate success.