Quality Manual and Standard Operating Procedures - File attached

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All great ideas. We are a 3 man shop and work instructions are scarce; however, we will look at referencing related forms. Thank you for your response.
 
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#12
If anyone has any more, please do share them. Many people will appreciate it.
 
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Just a query; sorry if I'm being negative here but why on earth do people use abbreviations? They are the most useless things ever. I fail to understand why they are used. Are to words to expensive to type or say?

I gave up reading a professional journal I once subscibed to because of abbreviations. I would get midway through some point the writer was trying to make in an article and I'd have to back to the begining to see what the abbreviation meant and by the time I got back to my place in the article I had lost the whole point.

Abbrevaitions also increase risk because poeple don't want to appear an idiot by asking what a particular abbreviation stands for only to be told it stands for a some common term or form used. This can lead to risk of nonconformances and risk of unwanted events to people and plant.

Well; thats why abbrervaitions are in the procedure, I hear your cry!!

Well; 6 pages into the manual or any other document riddled with abbrevaitions are you really going to go back to the first few pages and thumb through it to find out what some particular abbrevaition means?

If I have to do that with this document or any other document..... well; shove it, I'd rather risk an injury to someone else or see the company get a non-conformance rather than go back through the document to see what the abbrevaitions means or look like an idiot for asking what it means. Sorry mate but I got work to do, cya later! (Thats the way people think)

I thought procedures are meant to convey clear unambigious information to the reader not confusion.

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subodhshah

#14
Hi, thanks
I was stuckup in few procedures while preparing it
your format will help me to solve that

Thanks
 
G

Groo3

#15
Abbreviations are a risk, especially when you use a lot of them... If you use them, you should make sure to define them ALL. Too many abbreviations drive me nuts, but whatever works for your business is fine. Quality Manual's are not there to make an outside auditor's life easier, they are there because they are required by a standard and to help your business to organize and meet the requirements of a standard.

Your QM does appear to have one or two abbreviations that are not defined, for example what does MTP mean? (you do say Medical Technical Products on the cover, but you do not define that on your acronyms page, is that what the acronym means? I found MTP on page 7 + 13 + 18) Never assume others will understand acronyms that are common to your industry, and if you are going to use an acronym, make sure it is defined. You should also use caution using acronyms where they are not used in your final version of the QM (I saw FSCA defined under abbreviations, but could not find it elsewhere in your document - then again, it's early and I haven't had my first cup of tea yet).

Other than that, I like it... concise, directs you to the correct documents, gives you a sense of how the processes work. :agree1: :2cents:

PS: http://www.abbreviations.com/MTP
 
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<snip> I gave up reading a professional journal I once subscibed to because of abbreviations. I would get midway through some point the writer was trying to make in an article and I'd have to back to the begining to see what the abbreviation meant and by the time I got back to my place in the article I had lost the whole point. <snip>
This is the type of constructive criticism I was hoping for. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
 
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