The safety manager verifies a construction-standard value: what is contractor quality control focused on?
Correct Answer
D) Checking and correcting work to meet contract requirements
Checking and correcting work to meet contract requirements is the correct meaning of quality control in this construction context for concept item 353. Other choices: the distractors describe unrelated administration, payment, or closeout ideas.
Why This Is the Correct Answer
Checking and correcting work to meet contract requirements is the correct meaning of quality control in this construction context for concept item 353.
Why the Other Options Are Wrong
Option A: Apply deleting inspections to the quality control condition
Choice A gives Deleting inspections. Its specific error: it points to Deleting inspections, but.
Option B: Base the quality control response on changing bid laws
Choice B (Changing bid laws) is rejected because it shifts the question into contract administration money flow.
Option C: Limit quality control to avoiding submittals
In general project requirements, Avoiding submittals is the wrong selection for Quality control: it leaves out the controlling Quality control result.
Memory Technique
Make quality control a purpose cue; if the choice changes the purpose, it cannot be Checking and correcting work to meet contract requirements.
Reference Hint
Open Construction Jobsite Management, 5th Ed.; use the index entry or section for "Quality control" to confirm that Checking and correcting work to meet contract requirements is the correct meaning of quality control in this construction context for concept item 353.
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