Q: How should I Control my ISO 9000 documents?

Your organization must develop and document a procedure to control quality documents. Your procedure must ensure that you:

  • Approve documents before you distribute them.
  • Provide the correct version of documents at points of use.
  • Review and re-approve documents whenever you update them.
  • Specify the current revision status of your documents.
  • Identify changes that are made to documents.
  • Preserve the usability of your quality documents.
  • Preserve the identity of your documents.
  • Preserve the readability of your documents.
  • Monitor documents that come from external sources.
  • Identify documents that come from the outside.
  • Control the distribution of these external documents.
  • Prevent the accidental use of obsolete documents.
  • Identify obsolete documents that have been retained.

But HOW you do this is entirely up to you!