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Designing Checklists

By Mark Kaganov

There is an updated and modified version of the article originally published under the title Checklists – A Perfect Tool to Tune-up Your Quality Manual in Quality Progress magazine in the October 2000 issue.

Abstract

This paper offers practical methods to create and use checklists to verify compliance of a quality manual with the requirements of various international and national standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 13485 or any other. The author analyzes the advantages of using single and multi-standard checklists. The various examples shown in the paper illustrate a practical approach to developing a simple yet very helpful tool to ensure that your quality manual addresses all the requirements of the applicable standards.

The updated version of this article is located on our

ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001 Manual Checklist page

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