posted 21 August 2001 05:29 PM               

Here I am back in the forum after renovation. Thanks to Marc!

I am in a little doubt... whether I am right, or wrong. The 3 layer documentation system is a recommendadtion, but not a requirement, isn't it?

I have been thinking of a QAS documentation for a small production company with processes, which are not very complex and numerous. To keep it simple, we chose a 2 layer (tier) documentation structure:
1. The Manual and The Policy
2. Procedures, including work instructions as their chapters or sections, where necessary. These chapters or sections can be quoted and, say, hanged on the wall before the worker. However, they are NOT separate documents.
Is such an approach criminal from the point of view of the Standard? or acceptable?

Thanks for help.

posted 21 August 2001 08:48 PM               

Documentation structures is certainly a subject where everyone has different preferences, and different organisations have different needs in terms of depth/quantity of documentation.

My Quality Manual is only a few pages, then has the master list of system level procedures, which are then (the procedures themselves) included in the manual.

Instruction level documents can be distributed as required, so I keep this level separate from the procedures (I talking hard copy here).

I usually have the forms in a separate manual, but you can have them at the back of the corresponding procedure.

Then there's induction manuals, lab manuals, position descriptions, ......