A Quality Assurance Plan actually involves all aspects of a building project, not just risk management. It begins with assigning or hiring a Project Manager to oversee that the plan is put into place and followed. The plan should be a written document outlining what the scope of the project encompasses. The plan needs to spell out who is responsible for managing what aspects of the project in addition to how the people all interact and communicate with each other. This is a very important aspect of the Qualilty Assurance plan because no matter how good a plan is, it does not work if relevant information is not shared with all of the necessary people.In order to know if your Quality Assurance Plan is actually working, there needs to be checks and balances in place and frequent reviews completed. Adjustments should be made if necessary to your plan. I believe that the construction company who employed the sub-contractor who was injured believed that their plan did cover all aspects of the project, but unfortunately this accident still occurred. This incident should raise the awareness of any project manager on how important it is to have a thorough Quality Assurance Plan in place and that this Plan should be prepared by a professional. If you do not use someone who is a professional in preparing a construction project quality plan, you could miss some very important aspects of the plan. There are different ways you can utilize a professional, you can either hire one personally or obtain guidelines to assist you in your Quality Assurance Plan. You should be careful that the guidelines are also prepared by a professional, otherwise it may not be effective.There is a quote by John Powell that says “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” The lesson you can learn from the construction company that had the critically injured employee is to make sure you have an effective professionally prepared Quality Assurance Plan in place for your next project.