Thursday, July 11, 2019
ISO9001/2015 Internal Audit - DOCUMENT CONTROL V1
Date
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Audit Number
2019 Q2 08
Name of Auditor
Lucy Bennett-Poole
Scope & Objective of Audit To ensure that Section 7.5.3 is being adhered to on a continuous basis and that where new external documents are introduced to the business processes, they are documented and controlled in the same manner.
What our QMS States...... 7.5 - DOCUMENTED INFORMATION 7.5.3 - Control of Documented Information All documented information is generate, stored and viewable from this website. External Documents Where external documents are required for the planning or operation of the management system then they shall be identi ed in the relevant section of the Quality Manual, and an electronic copy is held in the relevant section of this website.. All external documents will be reviewed by the Management Representative for suitability before they are included. Record Retention Where hard copies are required, current year will be retained within the central ling area in the o ce with previous years being held in a suitable archive location on PWS premises for a minimum period of 7 years. When les are due to be disposed of, this will be reviewed in the Management Meeting to con rm that there is no bene t to continue to retain longer, provide formal authorisation for disposal and identify any speci c controls that may be required. Where les are held electronically, these are backed up every 2 hours on a cloud based back-up system. When a le is required to be accessed from the cloud based storage system, a username and password is required. The Directors have this information and if neither are available, all passwords are in the password section of this website to which the o ce manager has the password. There is no standard retention policy, as those which need to be retained for a minimum of 7 years will be held as hard copy.
AUDITING DOCUMENT CONTROL Have any new relevant External Documents been introduced to the Company since the last audit?
NO
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Have the current External Documents contained within the QMS been reviewed and con rmed as the latest revision since the last Audit? Have there been any changes to the electronic cloud storage facility since the last audit? Has the Hard Copy Document retention policy been maintained since the last audit? Has the Hard Copy document retention policy changed since the last audit? Have there been ANY changes to the Document Control statement contained within QMS 7.5.3 since the last audit?
YES
NO
YES
NO
NO
Statement of Finding THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN PROCEDURE OR POLICY IN RELATION TO DOCUMENT CONTROL. NO FURTHER EXTERNAL DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED.
Requirement The requirement, as stated in section 7.5 of ISO9001:2015 is for documented information relevant to the companies processes be controlled in such a mannger as to allow only up to date versions to be in use.
Evidence THE PWS Website is the only place whereby this information is available and is been reviewed su ently by both internal and external personell to ensure that the documents contained within it are up to date.
Corrective Action Required
No
How have we related the ndings back to the standard? We have ensured that the ndings of this Audit conform to section 7.5 of the PWS QMS
Result of Audit
Pass
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