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(Draft) Accreditation Standard Guide S-A-01-G:2006


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S-A-01-G:2002 (PDF Format, 71 KB)
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Table of Contents

Revision Table

Introduction

1.0 Scope
1.1 Applicability
1.2 Scope of Measurement Canada Accreditation Program
1.2.1 Under the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act
1.2.2 Under the Weights and Measures Act
1.2.3 Conditional Approvals
1.3 Excluded from the Scope of the Accreditation Program
1.4 Eligibility

2.0 Definitions
2.1 Definitions Applicable to all Organizations
2.2 Additional Definitions Applicable to Organizations Seeking Accreditation Pursuant to the Weights and Measures Act

3.0 Responsibilities
3.1 Measurement Canada
3.2 Accredited Organizations and Organizations Seeking Accreditation
3.3 Additional Responsibilities Related to Weights and Measures Applicants
3.4 Fees Payable to Measurement Canada

4.0 Quality management system requirements
4.1 General requirements
4.2 Documentation requirements
4.2.1 General
4.2.2 Quality manual
4.2.3 Control of documents
4.2.4 Control of records

5.0 Management responsibility
5.1 Management commitment
5.2 Customer focus
5.3 Quality policy
5.4 Planning
5.4.1 Quality objectives
5.4.2 Quality management system planning
5.5 Responsibility, authority and communication
5.5.1 Responsibility and authority
5.5.2 Management representative
5.5.3 Internal communication
5.6 Management review
5.6.1 General
5.6.2 Review input
5.6.3 Review output

6.0 Resource management
6.1 Provision of resources
6.2 Human resources
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Competence, awareness and testing
6.3 Infrastructure
6.4 Work environment

7.0 Product realization
7.1 Planning of product realization
7.2 Customer-related processes
7.2.1 Determination of requirements related to the product
7.2.2 Review of requirements related to the product
7.2.3 Customer communication
7.3 Design and development
7.4 Purchasing
7.4.1 Purchasing process
7.4.2 Purchasing information
7.4.3 Verification of purchased product
7.5 Product and service provision
7.5.1 Control of production and service process
7.5.2 Validation of processes for production and service provision
7.5.3 Identification and traceability
7.5.4 Customer property
7.5.5 Preservation of product
7.6 Control of monitoring and measuring devices

8.0 Measurement, analysis, and improvement
8.1 General
8.2 Monitoring and measurement
8.2.1 Customer satisfaction
8.2.2 Internal audit
8.2.3 Monitoring and measurement of processes
8.2.4 Monitoring and measurement of product
8.3 Control of nonconforming product
8.4 Analysis of data
8.5 Improvement
8.5.1 Continual improvement
8.5.2 Corrective action
8.5.3 Preventive action

Appendix 1

Appendix 2


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Updated: 2005-12-02
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