The Draft to Approved lifecycle is for document types that require the formal Approval process, but NOT the level of control facilitated by the Document Change Control process.
The following Documents Types follow this lifecycle:
- Form > Electronic Executed Form
- Operations > Agreement
- Operations > Assessment
- Operations > Certificate
- Operations > Logbook
- Operations > Memo
- Operations > Method
- Operations > Plan
- Operations > Protocol
- Operations > Report
- Operations > Requirement
- Operations > Safety Data Sheet
Task Sequence
Best Practice
Complete tasks in the following order for Draft to Approved documents.
| Task | Who Does This Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Create Draft | Full User | *If applicable |
| 3 | Send Document for Authoring/Review | Full User | *If applicable |
| 4 | Author/Review Document) | Author(s)/Reviewer(s) | *If applicable |
| 5 | Send Document for Approval | Full User | |
| 6 | Approve Document | Approver(s) | |
| 7 | QA Approve Document | QA Approver(s) |