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4 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
4.1 General Requirements
The organization shall establish, document, implement and maintain a quality management system and
continually improve its effectiveness in accordance with the requirements of this International Standard.
The organization shall
a) determine the processes needed for the quality management system and their application throughout
the organization (see 1.2);
b) determine the sequence and interaction of these processes;
c) determine criteria and methods to ensure that both the operation and control of these processes are
effective;
d) ensure the availability of resources and information necessary to support the operation and monitoring
of these processes;
e) monitor, measure where applicable and analyze these processes; and
f) implement actions necessary to achieve planned and results and continual improvement of these
processes.
These processes shall be managed by the organization in accordance with the requirements of this
international Standard.
Where an organization chooses to outsource any process that affects product conformity with
requirements, the organization shall ensure control over such processes. The type and extent of the
Control to be applied to these outsourced processes shall be defined within the quality management
system.
Comply
4.1 General Requirements Y N
Action Needed Target
1. Have you identified all the key processes and activities
needed for Quality Management System?(i.e. those
processes needed to address requirements of ISO
9001:2008)
2. Have you identified all the key activities that affect the
quality of the products or services of your business
3. Identify the processes that you outsource to others; they
are still critical to your business success and you must
manage them as well.
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5. Have you defined how you will ensure the availability of
sufficient resources and information to ensure the
processes are carried out under controlled condition?
Resource needed to plan and deliver to meet the ever changing
requirements. The quality management system must be
continually monitored for effectiveness and improved as
needed.
6. Have you determined the criteria that need monitoring and
identify the parameters that are needed to be measured?
7. Also have you defined how the measured results will be
analysed?
Improvement is only possible if you know where you are
starting from and where you want to go.
Improvement is an important requirement in ISO 9001:2008.
4 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
4.2 Document Requirements
4.2.1 General
The quality management system documentation shall include
a) documented statements of a quality policy and quality objectives;
b) a quality manual;
c) documented procedures and records required by this International Standard;
d) documents, including records determined by the organization to be necessary to ensure the effective
planning, operation and control of its processes.
Comply
4.2 Document Requirements Y N
Action Needed Target
1. Have you documented your quality policy, quality
objectives, quality manual, procedures, planning
documents and quality records?
2. Have you defined and documented the procedures and
records required by this international standard?
This ISO 9001:2008 states 6 procedures as mandatory
a. Document Control (4.2.3)
b. Record Control (4.2.4)
c. Internal Audit (8.2.2)
d. Control Non Conforming products (8.3)
e. Corrective Action (8.5.2)
f. Preventive Action. (8.5.3)
3. Have you defined and documented the procedures and
records required by your organization to ensure the
effectiveness of QMS?
You have to identify the processes that will affect the
effectiveness of the Quality Management System and
decide the control measures.
Eg. Sales and Purchase can affect the effectiveness of QMS,
hence these processes are defined as procedure and
necessary records like Enquiry Register, Purchase Orders,
are maintained.
Note: Procedure, records can be maintained in any media.
Flow charts, if constructed properly, can also be used to depict the same information contained in a ‘traditional’
procedure format.
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4.3 Document Requirements (cont’d)
4.2.2 Quality Manual
The organization shall establish and maintain a quality manual that includes
a) the scope of the quality management system, including details of and justification for any exclusions
(see 1.2);
b) the documented procedures established for the quality management system, or referenced to
them; and
c) a description of the interaction between the processes of the quality management system.
Comply Target
4.2 Document Requirements Y N
Action Neeeded
Date
Have you established and Maintained a Quality Manual?
The quality manual is the “road map” of the quality management
system. It should give readers an overview of how the quality
management system operates.
1. Does the quality manual state the scope of the quality
management system?
2. Is exclusion to any requirement of the standard is stated? Is it
Justified?
Exclusions is limited to requirements within clause 7 and not
affect the organization's ability to provide product that meets
customer and applicable regulatory requirements.
3. Is reference to the procedures (6 Mandatory procedures and
Procedures of processes that could affect the QMS functioning)
given in the Manual?
4. Is sequence and interaction of quality management system
processes defined in the Manual?
This can be done effectively in a flow chart, However any
format is acceptable as long as it describes the interaction
between quality management system processes required by
ISO 9001:2008.
(i.e. order handling, planning, purchasing, training, design,
product or service provision, inspection, monitoring and
measuring, etc.).
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Guidance:
4.2 Document Requirements (cont’d)
4.2.3 Control of Documents
Documents required by the quality management system shall be controlled. Records are a special type of
document and shall be controlled according to the requirements given in 4.2.4.
A documented procedure shall be established to define the controls needed
a) to approve documents for adequacy prior to issue;
b) to review and update as necessary and re‐approve documents;
c) to ensure that changes and the current revision status of documents are identified;
d) to ensure that relevant versions of applicable documents are available at points of use;
e) to ensure that documents remain legible and readily identifiable;
f) to ensure that documents of external origin are identified and their distribution
g) controlled; and
h) to prevent the unintended use of obsolete documents, and to apply suitable identification to them if
they are retained for any purpose.
Comply Target
4.2.4 Control of Documents Action Needed
Y N Date
1) Have you defined and documented a procedure for control of
Documents and defined the following in the procedure?
2) What are controlled documents in your organisation?
3) Have you prepared a master list of Controlled Documents?
4) How will controlled documents identified?
Normally controlled document should have
• Unique Reference Number.
• Title of the document
• Date
• Revision
• Prepared by
5) Approved by.
6) Responsibility to Approve document after ensuring the
completeness.
7) Responsibility and authority to issue the document?
8) How will the document be reviewed and updated?
9) How will the document be revised?
10) How will the document be reissued?
11) Handling the document of earlier version? (Obsolete
Documents)
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4.2.4 Control of Records
Records shall be established and maintained to provide evidence of conformity to requirements and of
the effective operation of the quality management system. Records shall remain legible, readily
identifiable and retrievable. A documented procedure shall be established to define the controls needed
for the identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention time and disposition of records.
4.2 DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS (cont’d) Comply
Action Needed target
4,2,4 Control of Records Y N
1) Have you identified records to provide the evidence needed to
demonstrate planned activities and/or to provide the data
needed to evaluate their effectiveness?
2) Have you defined a procedure for control of records as per the
following?
3) How the records will be identified? Using a unique number?
4) Where and how the records are to be stored?
5) Retrieval process?
6) Their retention time and their disposal mechanism.
Note: There is a difference between documents and records. Essentially, documents are used to describe or control how things are to be done
and records are used to prove they were accomplished.
Formats too are Document until they are filled.
Documents can be revised but records cannot be revised.
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