ABSTRACT
Document a stable process One of the biggest sources of noncompliance to SOPs is writing and posting SOPs for a process that is untried or not stable. SOPs should never reflect a theoretical or untried procedure. There are ways to test a procedure taking into account any SOPs that are already effective, and there are ways to document a process when no SOP governs it. This chapter provides examples of what can happen when untried procedures are put into SOPs; it proposes approaches to creating processes and the related SOPs that can be followed on the day they are posted as effective.
