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I was not sure whether to post this Documentation and Forms, Nonconformance and Corrective Action Systems, or Preventive Action and Continuous Improvement!!! Please feel free to move it accordingly!
We have a Process Failure Form. This form can be filled out by anyone in the organization and gets reported on in the form of Pareto Charts in our monthly Joint Supervisors Meeting. When a Process Failure Form (PFF) involves an external failure, it is mandatory for a Corrective Action (CA) to be filled out.
Now -- my question - what to do with the forms? Who keeps them? Right now, the way things work is that if the PFF becomes a CA, it gets stapled to the CA. I have no problem with that.
But if the PFF is internal, it gets reported on in the meeting, and then everyone has his/her own way of storing, filing, or discarding the forms. They are supposed to be to collect data and I've heard the argument that once the data has been recorded on the Pareto Chart - that's it - Sayonara and welcome to the Round File (aka File 13, The Trash Can, etc)
Do other people have some sort of central filing location or storage for similar forms? Or is the Round File the disposal method of choice?
Our Corrective Action procedure is no help on this one - I'm on my own here and just wanted a consensus as to what other people do. Thank you.
We have a Process Failure Form. This form can be filled out by anyone in the organization and gets reported on in the form of Pareto Charts in our monthly Joint Supervisors Meeting. When a Process Failure Form (PFF) involves an external failure, it is mandatory for a Corrective Action (CA) to be filled out.
Now -- my question - what to do with the forms? Who keeps them? Right now, the way things work is that if the PFF becomes a CA, it gets stapled to the CA. I have no problem with that.
But if the PFF is internal, it gets reported on in the meeting, and then everyone has his/her own way of storing, filing, or discarding the forms. They are supposed to be to collect data and I've heard the argument that once the data has been recorded on the Pareto Chart - that's it - Sayonara and welcome to the Round File (aka File 13, The Trash Can, etc)
Do other people have some sort of central filing location or storage for similar forms? Or is the Round File the disposal method of choice?
Our Corrective Action procedure is no help on this one - I'm on my own here and just wanted a consensus as to what other people do. Thank you.