All -
As always, thanks for your inputs.
I'm always reluctant to air my employer's dirty laundry on the internet, but I've a quandary, and figure I may as well come to you folks for advice.
In my new position, with a company with it's first 9001 certificate, I find that my predecessor established a document control system as follows:
1) Engineering controls drawings
2) The QA manager controls all SOPs
3) Everybody else controls their own documentation - each department has a Technical Document Control (TDC) person responsible for anything that doesn't fall under 1) and 2) above.
Unfortunately this document control system was established without informing the players of their responsibilities. Nobody is aware that they are TDC. Each department creates their own uncontrolled documents.
I have begun to remedy this - all the SOPs are being revised, renumbered and transferred to Document Control under Engineering auspices.
But do I leave some of the TDC nonsense stand for the (new) external auditor to discover in January 2014, or do I strip all that language out of the SOPs and let the chips fall where they may?
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All advice appreciated...
normzone
As always, thanks for your inputs.
I'm always reluctant to air my employer's dirty laundry on the internet, but I've a quandary, and figure I may as well come to you folks for advice.
In my new position, with a company with it's first 9001 certificate, I find that my predecessor established a document control system as follows:
1) Engineering controls drawings
2) The QA manager controls all SOPs
3) Everybody else controls their own documentation - each department has a Technical Document Control (TDC) person responsible for anything that doesn't fall under 1) and 2) above.
Unfortunately this document control system was established without informing the players of their responsibilities. Nobody is aware that they are TDC. Each department creates their own uncontrolled documents.
I have begun to remedy this - all the SOPs are being revised, renumbered and transferred to Document Control under Engineering auspices.
But do I leave some of the TDC nonsense stand for the (new) external auditor to discover in January 2014, or do I strip all that language out of the SOPs and let the chips fall where they may?
:All advice appreciated...
normzone


