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When is guideline necessary?
What are the characteristics of a guideline?
What is the composition of a guideline? By composition, I mean sections like scope, responsibility, etc.
Is a guideline formatted like a procedure? If not, will guidelines suffice to satisty control of records requirement of ISO 9001? I mean, instead of developing a control of records procedure can I just develop guidelines for control of records?
The reason for asking these questions is that some (or most) documents/forms/records are moving from one department to another. Thought we have a Central File Department that takes care of records to avoid loss and tampering and protects from physical deterioration and damage, but for other departments, how should I spell out the requirements of identification, protection, storage, and retrieval, retention, and disposal?
If I write a control of records procedure, I should be listing all of the tasks to complete the actvity. The action is sequential, written as a series of tasks. (Even though not all departments are doing, for example, disposal of records.) Should I develop a general Control of Records Procedure or just a guideline?
By the way, we are not an ISO 9001 practitioner, I just want to adopt/intigrate 4.2.4 requirement of ISO 9001 in our documentation.
Many Thanks in advance.
What are the characteristics of a guideline?
What is the composition of a guideline? By composition, I mean sections like scope, responsibility, etc.
Is a guideline formatted like a procedure? If not, will guidelines suffice to satisty control of records requirement of ISO 9001? I mean, instead of developing a control of records procedure can I just develop guidelines for control of records?
The reason for asking these questions is that some (or most) documents/forms/records are moving from one department to another. Thought we have a Central File Department that takes care of records to avoid loss and tampering and protects from physical deterioration and damage, but for other departments, how should I spell out the requirements of identification, protection, storage, and retrieval, retention, and disposal?
If I write a control of records procedure, I should be listing all of the tasks to complete the actvity. The action is sequential, written as a series of tasks. (Even though not all departments are doing, for example, disposal of records.) Should I develop a general Control of Records Procedure or just a guideline?
By the way, we are not an ISO 9001 practitioner, I just want to adopt/intigrate 4.2.4 requirement of ISO 9001 in our documentation.
Many Thanks in advance.
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