Tips for saving your documents of the quality system ISO9001-2008

If you read this, it is likely that you have thought of writing system documentation on the quality of your company. This will include your quality manual, procedures, perhaps some, and perhaps some work instructions.

In ISO9001-2008 require documented quality manual and documented procedures. There are 6 procedures of the quality required under ISO9001-2008 but all ends up with more than 6. 6 the procedures are as follows: control of non-conforming material, internal audit, document management, records management, corrective action and preventive action. Most likely you want to write some more of the procedures for your organization. Procedures, such as how to issue a purchase order, processing a sales order, receiving inspection, checking of maritime transport, etc, all very often used.

Overthinking it Now does not go. This does not mean that you have a 50 page manually. Each of these procedures can be written in paragraph or, if this is all you need to adequately describe how you can do so. In general I don't like to maintain each procedure to 1 or 2 pages maximum. Unless they are particularly complex, the most documented procedures can be written on page 1.

Your guide to quality can be very simple. It may be a matter for 3 or 4 pages. Each paragraph you can say something like "we conduct periodic internal audits. Procedure for internal audit is the responsbility of the Manager of quality. See the procedure number 8 for how we carry out internal audits. "

You don't necessarily have a documented procedure for everything you do. For example, in ISO9001-2008 is the requirement that evaluate and approve suppliers. You can find very useful to have a documented procedure on how this is done, but this is not a requirement. If your organization is very small and the evaluation process of the supplier may be covered by the training may not be necessary to document the process. Of course you will have better prepared to protect themselves during the audit your third party. But if intelligently you can describe the process of the auditor and you have the records to prove that you are in compliance with the standard ISO9001, then it is not necessarily need a documented procedure. This entry was posted on Tuesday, 10th August 2010 at 2: 47 PM and is filed under From cuttings, overall quality system ISO9001: 2000 blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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