Quality Assurance • Regulatory Affairs

Work Instruction Development

Duration: 1 months • Role: Quality Assurance Specialist

Formatting and merging documents (fonts, structure) seems purely cosmetic but is often a submission requirement in its own right, getting it wrong is a preventable reason for rejection.

Context

Reviewing the quality plan's unreviewed sections meant reformatting and merging the underlying documents into the required structure before the package could be called submission-ready.

Quality Plan Work Instruction Document Formatting

Primary Risks Identified

  • An outdated checklist or work instruction being followed after the underlying regulation or process has changed

Testing Approach

Compared the existing checklist/instruction against the current regulation or process in practice, corrected discrepancies, and confirmed the update against the source document or QMS procedure.

Checklist Comparison Work Instruction Verification

Outcome

Reformatted and merged the documents into the required standard, making the package submission-ready.

Key Lessons

Formatting and merging documents (fonts, structure) seems purely cosmetic but is often a submission requirement in its own right, getting it wrong is a preventable reason for rejection.

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