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Its clear form some of these posts that for some of you guys your form is either in effect your product, or is integral to the product/service that you supply. In these instances control of forms is very important.
As for fax headers that is really going too far. The company I presently work for has gone some way down this path in the past. I have even seen a small label that measures about 8mm by 25mm with the word 'SPLICE' in red letters given a form number. This is utterly ridiculous, it is taking the letter of the law too far without understanding the purpose behind it, i.e. cause and effect - why do you need to contol the form ?, what effect would not controlling it have ?
If a 3rd party assessor made anything more than an observation soley on the point that a form seen in use was an earlier revision to the master form, without investigating the effect on quality of this, I would stop the audit there and request that he were removed from the audit.
As for fax headers that is really going too far. The company I presently work for has gone some way down this path in the past. I have even seen a small label that measures about 8mm by 25mm with the word 'SPLICE' in red letters given a form number. This is utterly ridiculous, it is taking the letter of the law too far without understanding the purpose behind it, i.e. cause and effect - why do you need to contol the form ?, what effect would not controlling it have ?
If a 3rd party assessor made anything more than an observation soley on the point that a form seen in use was an earlier revision to the master form, without investigating the effect on quality of this, I would stop the audit there and request that he were removed from the audit.