Greetings!!!
I was recently hired to lead QA for a company that has a very basic paper-based Quality Management System. Many of the forms have fields that are far too small to capture what is required in them and they are required to be filled out by hand. For example, there may only be a few inches of space to allow for a full root cause analysis and definitely not enough space to write it out. The result is always to write "see attached" and attach a fully typed investigation.
I would like to get away from that by changing the forms to "fillable" (typeable) forms that have locked down content, but have expanding fields. While it would not change the content of the form template, it would change the structure format. For example, Section II may originally be at the bottom of pg. 1. However, Section I was filled out with much greater detail and Section II ended up on pg. 3. My controlled version may only be two pages long, but it could be 10 pages once completed.
My question is... how do I control a form that can expand as such?
I was recently hired to lead QA for a company that has a very basic paper-based Quality Management System. Many of the forms have fields that are far too small to capture what is required in them and they are required to be filled out by hand. For example, there may only be a few inches of space to allow for a full root cause analysis and definitely not enough space to write it out. The result is always to write "see attached" and attach a fully typed investigation.
I would like to get away from that by changing the forms to "fillable" (typeable) forms that have locked down content, but have expanding fields. While it would not change the content of the form template, it would change the structure format. For example, Section II may originally be at the bottom of pg. 1. However, Section I was filled out with much greater detail and Section II ended up on pg. 3. My controlled version may only be two pages long, but it could be 10 pages once completed.
My question is... how do I control a form that can expand as such?