How to Fill a Document Control Request Form in 14 Steps?

In this article, you will learn how to fill a Document Control Request Form (DCR) in 14 steps during the Document Control Management (DCM) lifecycle.  Moreover, you can discover how to get a Document Management and Control Procedure Template and Document Management Software Application to handle your training activities fast and easily.

According to ISO 9001:2008 standard in section 4.2.3 on document control states, “All documents required by the quality management system shall be controlled.”

This means that if a document addresses or relates to any of the issues in ISO 9001: it must be controlled.

The Document Control Request Form may include, but, is not limited to complete the following 14 steps and information, (as applicable)

1. Document Control number.
2. Version.
3. Reason and description of the change.
4. Permanent change,
5. What changes in the document?
6. Why the document change/justification?
7. How changes the document?
8. Where changes the document?
9. When changes the document?
10. Document change type categorization (decision tree.
11. Impacted areas of the document change.
12. Document change requirements.
13. Document change implementation.
14. Request, implementation completion & closure approval.

The following table shows an example of a Document Control Request Form.

Document Control Request Form Example

STATUTORY AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS

Title 21 CFR Part 11 that establishes the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations on electronic records and electronic signatures (ERES), as it is commonly called, defines the criteria under which electronic records and electronic signatures are considered trustworthy, reliable, and equivalent to paper records (Title 21 CFR Part 11 Section 11.1 (a))

httpss://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/part-11-electronic-records-electronic-signatures-scope-and-application

httpss://www.fda.gov/media/75414/download

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REFERENCES:

For more information about Document Control Request Form, refer to:

httpss://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/part-11-electronic-records-electronic-signatures-scope-and-application

httpss://www.fda.gov/media/118202/download

httpss://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=820.40

QS Regulation and Guidance • Quality System Regulation and Preamble

www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?CFRPart=820&showFR=1

www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/PostmarketRequirements/QualitySystemsRegulations/ucm230127.htm

Inspection Guide – Pages 8, 15, 21, 22 and 23

httpss://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Inspections/InspectionGuides/ucm074899.htm

Guide to Inspections of Quality Systems [Quality System Inspection Technique (QSIT)]

www.fda.gov/iceci/inspections/inspectionguides/ucm074883.htm