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Operator Qualification and Authorization Record
The evidence behind every stamp, release and signature: a qualification record for each person and task, a register that shows which authorizations are current, due, lapsed or expired, and a stamp log that keeps every stamp traceable to one person.
- Excel
- fillable PDF
- Worked example
- Your logo on it
- Aegis Insights
Page 1 of the PDF. Every resource includes a fully worked example.
The problem it solves
Stamps and release authority are where competence and product acceptance meet. In many shops the stamp was issued years ago on a supervisor's word, the vision exam lapsed last spring, the person has not done the task in eight months, and a stamp belonging to someone who left is still in a drawer. None of it shows until an auditor or a customer asks who released a part and on what basis. This workbook records the evidence each time someone is qualified, keeps every authorization on one register with its requalification, vision and lapse dates, and logs every stamp from issue to retirement.
Who uses it
Quality managers and supervisors who grant authorizations, and the people who hold them.
When
Fill a qualification record each time someone is qualified or requalified; keep the registers current as authorizations are granted, used, suspended and returned; review the Summary monthly and before audits.
Free to use, change and copy, in your own organization or with your clients; add your own logo, keep the Aegis credit. Part of: Workforce Competence Kit. Clause references: 7.2, 8.5.1 (with 8.6, 7.5.3) (numbers only; use your own licensed copy of the standard).
A management aid, not certification or a registrar audit. Using it does not by itself show conformity to AS9100D or any other standard.
How to put it to work
Chapters of our free guides that use this tool.
- The kit and how the tools connectThe FAI and Production Readiness Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- What is in the kitThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 2
- The competence systemThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 3
- Authorizations and stampsThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 9
- What an auditor will ask, and where the answer isThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 18
- Running the systemThe Workforce Competence Kit Handbook, chapter 20
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