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Process · Disposition and containment

Disposition and containment

Quality Approver's inspection decision separates passing scope from failed scope. Failed scope is rejected and can raise a nonconformance linked to the inspection. The issue carries a description, severity and detected date, then moves through containment, investigation and disposition while corrective work is assigned.

Step by step

  1. Review checks Quality Approver

    Quality Approver reads required results and their observations and evidence.

    • Read results and source evidence
    • Updates Inspection checks, Inspections
  2. Reject failed scope Quality Approver

    Quality Approver rejects the failed part of the inspection and raises the linked issue.

    • Mark Rejected and link issue to inspection
    • Updates Inspections, Nonconformances
    ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.
  3. Describe issue Quality Manager

    Quality Manager records the detected date, severity and exact failed condition.

    • Retain severity and description
    • Updates Nonconformances
  4. Contain Quality Manager

    The team follows the issue from Open to Containment while it handles the immediate problem.

    • Follow Open to Containment
    • Updates Nonconformances
  5. Investigate and dispose Quality Approver

    Quality Manager follows Investigation and records the issue as Disposition before corrective work.

    • Set response context for linked actions
    • Updates Nonconformances, Corrective actions
Quality Approver
Decides inspection scope; Quality Manager follows containment and investigation; assigned corrective owners carry out the response.

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