{"id":993,"date":"2023-01-18T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T02:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/?page_id=993"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T05:03:15","slug":"what-is-document-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/what-is-document-control\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Document Control!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#251495\"><strong>Document Control<\/strong> is an important, if not critical, process that ALL businesses should have in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Document Control involves ensuring your documents are controlled in a manner that makes them current and correct so they can be used in your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using out-of-date documentation can be worse than using no documentation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#251495\"><strong>What documentation needs to be controlled?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any documents that are used to run the business or develop\/build\/maintain plant &amp; equipment, buildings, projects, should be controlled, as they provide the instructions and information to perform tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#251495\"><strong><em>This can be achieved by:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defining a unique and meaningful numbering system;<br>Sending and tracking documentation on a review and approval cycle;<br>Ensuring all documentation is maintained at the most current revision;<br>Documentation is accessible by all parties;<br>Expediting outstanding documentation on review and approval;<br>Transmitting documentation to stakeholders;<br>Maintaining a history of the development of revisions;<br>Maintaining a list of recipients for distributed copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Document Control is an important, if not critical, process that ALL businesses should have in place. Document Control involves ensuring your documents are controlled in a manner that makes them current and correct so they can be used in your business. Using out-of-date documentation can be worse than using no documentation! What documentation needs to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/what-is-document-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All About Document Control!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-993","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/993\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/documentcontrolprofessionals.com.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}