Once again, auditing pays off! No way in heck, my audits should be the method to identify QA failures on a piping installation, but it seems the past 10 years or so, it’s happening more and more. This event was a significant failure on the General Contractor and the Sub-Contractor, who was doing the actual welding. This is the corrective action plan I offered to the client for recovering from these failures. Company names and welder names have been removed – it’s about learning from the mistakes of others, NOT name shaming.