---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 830.122"
title: "10"
number: "830.122"
heading: "Quality assurance criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/830.122"
---

# §830.122. Quality assurance criteria.


The QAP must address the following management, performance, and assessment criteria:

- (a) **Criterion 1—Management/Program.**
  - (1) Establish an organizational structure, functional responsibilities, levels of authority, and interfaces for those managing, performing, and assessing the work.
  - (2) **Establish management processes, including planning, scheduling, and providing resources for the work.**
- (b) **Criterion 2—Management/Personnel Training and Qualification.**
  - (1) **Train and qualify personnel to be capable of performing their assigned work.**
  - (2) **Provide continuing training to personnel to maintain their job proficiency.**
- (c) **Criterion 3—Management/Quality Improvement.**
  - (1) **Establish and implement processes to detect and prevent quality problems.**
  - (2) Identify, control, and correct items, services, and processes that do not meet established requirements.
  - (3) **Identify the causes of problems and work to prevent recurrence as a part of correcting the problem.**
  - (4) Review item characteristics, process implementation, and other quality-related information to identify items, services, and processes needing improvement.
- (d) **Criterion 4—Management/Documents and Records.**
  - (1) Prepare, review, approve, issue, use, and revise documents to prescribe processes, specify requirements, or establish design.
  - (2) **Specify, prepare, review, approve, and maintain records.**
- (e) **Criterion 5—Performance/Work Processes.**
  - (1) Perform work consistent with technical standards, administrative controls, and other hazard controls adopted to meet regulatory or contract requirements, using approved instructions, procedures, or other appropriate means.
  - (2) **Identify and control items to ensure their proper use.**
  - (3) **Maintain items to prevent their damage, loss, or deterioration.**
  - (4) **Calibrate and maintain equipment used for process monitoring or data collection.**
- (f) **Criterion 6—Performance/Design.**
  - (1) **Design items and processes using sound engineering/scientific principles and appropriate standards.**
  - (2) **Incorporate applicable requirements and design bases in design work and design changes.**
  - (3) **Identify and control design interfaces.**
  - (4) Verify or validate the adequacy of design products using individuals or groups other than those who performed the work.
  - (5) **Verify or validate work before approval and implementation of the design.**
- (g) **Criterion 7—Performance/Procurement.**
  - (1) **Procure items and services that meet established requirements and perform as specified.**
  - (2) **Evaluate and select prospective suppliers on the basis of specified criteria.** Establish and implement processes to ensure that approved suppliers continue to provide acceptable items and services.
- (h) **Criterion 8—Performance/Inspection and Acceptance Testing.**
  - (1) Inspect and test specified items, services, and processes using established acceptance and performance criteria.
  - (2) **Calibrate and maintain equipment used for inspections and tests.**
- (i) **Criterion 9—Assessment/Management Assessment.** Ensure managers assess their management processes and identify and correct problems that hinder the organization from achieving its objectives.
- (j) **Criterion 10—Assessment/Independent Assessment.**
  - (1) Plan and conduct independent assessments to measure item and service quality, to measure the adequacy of work performance, and to promote improvement.
  - (2) Establish sufficient authority, and freedom from line management, for the group performing independent assessments.
  - (3) Ensure persons who perform independent assessments are technically qualified and knowledgeable in the areas to be assessed.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; and 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 66205, Oct. 19, 2020, unless otherwise noted.