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Yes, absolutely. This is at the heart of The Toyota Way (aka lean). Failure (and, on the corollary, success) is always cultural.

this is true up to a point. really depends if this was a first time such mistake was made, was it a bad judgement or was she following company practice? It is extremely hard for a manger or QA to insect 100% of every employees work.

Oh, goodness no, I don't suggest that firing would be proper action!

Part of making new things is learning how to make them, and that means mistakes. I hope they get this sorted out and everyone comes away happy.

And if you fire somebody because they make a mistake, the result is a culture of coverups and blame shifting.