Using The Documents Of The Quality Key Business Area
Overview
The Key Business Area named Quality ISO9001:2008 and its sub-sections are designed to reflect the order and format of the requirements of the ISO9001:2008 Quality Management System Standard (QMS).
Whilst these documents will enable your organisation to complete much of the documentation for accreditation to the standard, there is more that must be done.
What to do now
It is necessary to review and edit these documents to ensure that, as a whole, they represent your internal systems accurately. There may be many other documents that you will need to evidence that your Quality Management System is integrated and evidenced in every area of your organisation.
It is strongly recommended that an experienced Quality Consultant be appointed to guide the documentation and implementation process.
Document layout
Each document in this suite begins with purpose statement, followed where possible by a suggested procedure for compliance with the particular element of the standard. Where the text is shown in red, this indicates that it is indicative of the text that is required or the text requires expansion.
All red text should be reviewed, adjusted and converted to normal text before completion.
All Quality Management system requirements have been detailed individually. Your quality consultant or auditor may suggest an amalgamation of procedures based on the nature of your organisation.
Attached supporting files
This document will assist you to evaluate your organisation against each of the ISO 9001:2008 requirements.
This document will become useful as you further expand or simplify the template documents of the Quality Key Business Area and develop additional material that may be located elsewhere in your database of quality documentation.