PE Stamp when QA/QC
I work in the structural design office of a medium consulting firm that has a large and semi-separate inspection group. Once or twice a year the Inspection group leader, who oversees and typically stamps the inspection reports gets overloaded with reports and asks for help with final QA/QC reviews for some dozens of late reports. If I offer help he asks me to stamp the reports that I QA/QC. I feel uneasy because I have not supervised the creation of the reports and only have an couple of hours to look over the reports to verify that there are no major mistakes prior to being asked to stamp them with my engineer's seal.
So, should a QA/QC check be adequate grounds to indicate approval (through P.E. Stamp) of work supervised by another professional engineer who had originally intended to stamp the reports? Is it enough to say that while I was not involved in supervising the gathering of data or the preparation of the report or the numerical checking of the report I spent the time necessary diring the final QA/QC check to satisfy myself that I approved of the report and therefor feel comfortable with stamping it. Is the prefessional engineer stamp only about comfort level and not actually being a supervisory engineer?
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