ABSTRACT
The minimum records considered essential for documenting research work are discussed in Chapter 3. Records should include any information, memos, meeting minutes, instrumentation calibration curves, or special references that have a bearing on the direction the project has taken, the data acquired, or the interpretation of results. These would normally include the following: work orders and customer communications, purchasing documents, test article configuration, laboratory notebooks, and reports. To this can be added the specific records committed to by the project leader to meet quality assurance requirements and that are listed in an appropriate section of the quality assurance plan (see Figure 11. 1). As a general guideline, if a commitment was made by the research center (project leader) or to the research center, that commitment should be documented in the project files and compliance with that commitment should be also documented.
