ISO 2015 in Plain English: Support Part 2

Requirement: Clause 7 is called Support, which is basically all of the resources required to support the organization’s primary business. This weeks review is on Monitoring and Measurement.

7.1.5 Monitoring and measuring resources (Calibration in Plain English)

7.1.5.1 General requires the organization to determine and provide the resources needed to ensure valid and reliable results when monitoring or measuring is used to verify the conformity of products and services to requirements. This includes ensuring that the resources provided are suitable for the specific type of monitoring and measurement activities being undertaken, and are maintained to ensure their continuing fitness for their purpose. Finally, it requires the organization to retain appropriate documented information as evidence of fitness for purpose of the monitoring and measurement resources.

7.1.5.2 Measurement traceability refers to standards traceable to international or national measurement standards; and also requires that measuring equipment be identified in order to determine their status, and safeguarded from adjustments, damage or deterioration that would invalidate the calibration status and subsequent measurement results. Finally, it requires the organization to determine if the validity of previous measurement results has been adversely affected when measuring equipment is found to be unfit for its intended purpose, and to take appropriate action as necessary.

This last sentence is driving an industry practice of identifying the measurement equipment ID on inspection/measurement records to trace product to measurement devices.

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