Quality & Safety
Lab Curriculum.

BUG FOUND: learners who know quality terms, but cannot run an audit that finds real defects.

$ step-01 brushup // weeks 1–2 — Topics taught:

1. Quality basics: defect, non-conformance, and corrective action.
2. Audit basics: scope, checklist, evidence, and sampling.
3. Safety basics: hazards, risk, and controls.
4. Root-cause basics: 5 Whys and fishbone, applied to a real case.
5. Documentation basics: findings that can be verified, not opinions.
6. Checklists and inspection methods for a sample process.

$ step-02 debug // weeks 3–4 — Production Debugging. Tools: sample process records, checklists, audit templates.

• BUG #1: Defect audit: a process produces defects — audit it, find the root cause, not just the defective output.
• BUG #2: Safety gap: a control exists on paper but not in practice — find the gap, propose a workable control.
• BUG #3: Failed check: a checklist passes but defects escape — find the checklist / sampling flaw, fix it.
• BUG #4: Repeat defect: the same failure returns after a fix — find why the first fix did not hold, propose a stronger action.

$ step-03 navigate // weeks 5–7 — Codebase / System Navigation:

• Navigate plant / process records: trace a defect to process, material, method, or people — with evidence.
• Audit a full process end-to-end, rank findings by risk, and separate facts from assumptions.
• Build a corrective action plan with owners, dates, and verification checks.
• Review a peer's audit for evidence quality and root-cause strength.

$ step-04 ship // weeks 8–9 — Shipping Features: capstone — an audit report + corrective action plan for a real-style process, presented as if to a quality reviewer.

$ ship → PROOF — exact output: audit report, corrective action plan with owners and verification checks.

$ run --lab quality-safety → ✓ SHIPPED, job-ready