There are times when a Quality practitioner may be called upon to support team members in ways that go beyond the strict interpretation of the role. These are described in a way that indicates the necessary situation, along with the constructive outcomes from such involvement.
Some company-wide initiatives have levels of urgency requiring most of the employees to augment their daily activities with additional tasks. One example I have encountered is a company-wide inventory reconciliation. This can be a quarterly or semi-annual exercise during which the stated inventory levels of raw materials, work in progress items, and finished goods are physically located and counted, and the variations are reported.