Re: ISO9001:2015 - 7.5.2 - Creating & Updating Documents Requirements
All companies have various documented procedures of one kind or another which were never required by ISO 9001. In the past ISO 9001 has only
required a small number of documented procedures, but that did not mean they were the
only procedures/systems which a company would document.
Nothing has really changed significantly. ISO 9001:2015 simply gathered requirements from the old clause 4.2.3.a, b, c, and e. The new clause does add a few examples: description, format, and media, but those were a given to begin with.
That said, when a procedure or process is documented the same stuff applies which have been required for documented procedures for many years such as identification and description (e.g., a title, date, author, or reference number).
In short, the requirements for a document control system haven't changed. If you read through some of these
document control discussions you will see that there are hundreds of ways different companies control documents. However, each has the same "basics".
Craig Cochran doesn't stop by here much these days, but here is an article he wrote some years back about document control which he shared here (attached - "Document control article.doc").
Also attached is an old "canned" document control procedure )Document Control2.doc). It contains the basics of a document control system. It is "canned, so take it for what it is - Food for Thought.
Also see:
Some more document control related files here.
And there are more in the "
Free Files Directory" and the "
Cove Members" directory. All the files are free, as always.
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