Management of change forms in food manufacturing?
I am looking for change forms for food manufacturing.
???? What exactly are you after? A little more info please
I need a template for Management of change forms in a food manufacturing plant.
are you talking about a change log? A record to record changes made to documents?
Yes I am.
I put a change log on the bottom of each document, where I would record the specifics. For instance: "Updated section 4 to include instructions on cleaning xyz. - Name, Date" And then in a separate document register I would list the current version number and the last revision date. I had no complaints from auditors.
Thank you, great idea.
That is what I do as well, change log at end of each document
AND I only update my master list once/year just before the audit so that I don't have to maintain it as well
I don't have access to it anymore to share, but one of my old companies had a "Management of Change Request" form that we filled out for each policy/document change. It was a simple doc specifying the policy name/number, description of change, reason for change, had a place for management review and our SQF practitioner (me) to discuss how it affected our FS-QMS. At the bottom, it required sign offs from production manager, QA manager, and one member of the executive team.
I kept all of those document change requests in a binder with a log on the front, and copies of the obsolete programs that were removed due to the change. This was in conjunction with the running Revision History on every single policy. I had a number of auditors mention they were impressed when they could see a document had been changed 6 months prior and I was able to immediately produce the documentation surrounding the change. The one place I didn't keep a running revision history was on forms used in production (only current version date and the version replaced date, because adding a revision history could make a single page form into multiple pages). When auditors would push back against that practice, I was able to use that change log in my defense to produce previous versions and explain the changes made.
Thank you all, you have given me some great ideas.