Periodic review of Documents during management review

jay747

Starting to get Involved
Yes indeed. When changes occur in processes, product designs, customer requirements, documented information, the QMS, these should be considered as inputs to the internal audit program. .
For process and document changes we identify the impact of the change with risk assessment and necessary actions taken accordingly. Internal audit as a process will be conducted on prefixed date but as you said these changes can be considered as inputs to see if the impact of the change was controlled as required.
 

qualprod

Trusted Information Resource
What can the periodic review of documents be replaced by? Any suggestions?
As I told before, I’m audits, other way I did in the past , I involved an internal auditor, by printing a list of documents of each process ,and he visited every process owner , together revised the documents, good practice , most of the times detected old documents even obsolet ones,
 

Randy

Super Moderator
What can the periodic review of documents be replaced by? Any suggestions?

Yep a very easy and very low cost solution....Only when there have been changes that could effect documents and when something wrong is happening that needs to be resolved that documents might be involved.
 

QandR

Starting to get Involved
If you want a robust QMS, incorporate a Periodic Review into your Document Control process. It doesn't have to be yearly, it can be biennial or longer. Leave it out of your Management Review, it has nothing to do with that. You cannot trust your process owners to ensure that their documents are up to date (role changes, personnel changes or just too plain busy). You need a tool to help them look at their documents. I've been doing this 20 + years and a robust QMS utilizes periodic review.
 

Funboi

On Holiday
If you want a robust QMS, incorporate a Periodic Review into your Document Control process. It doesn't have to be yearly, it can be biennial or longer
I’d suggest the two are mutually exclusive. A ”robust” QMS requires and relies on the active participation of Process Owners as changes to documents reflect their needs for process control, training etc. To suggest a review of documents, in a vacuum, every two years - which could be 23 months too late - doesn’t even come close to being recognizable as “robust”.
 
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