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📌 Continuing our discussion on documentation and process control, today we explore one of the key documents in a QMS — the Project Quality Plan (PQP).
Too often, the PQP is treated as a formality — a file prepared for tenders or audits. But used correctly, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for project control, predictability, and consistency.

What is a PQP according to ISO 10005:2018?
ISO 10005:2018 — “Quality management — Guidelines for quality plans” — provides recommendations on how to prepare quality plans for specific projects, products, or processes.
A PQP is defined as:
"A document specifying which procedures and associated resources shall be applied by whom and when to a specific project, product, process or contract."

Clause 6 of ISO 10005:2018 — PQP content structure
If you're preparing a PQP according to ISO 10005, it should cover the following 17 elements:
1. General
2. Scope of the quality plan
3. Inputs to the quality plan
4. Quality objectives
5. Responsibilities stated in the quality plan
6. Control of documented information
7. Resources
8. Communication with customers stakeholders
9. Design and development
10. Processes, products and services provided externally
11. Production and service provision
12. Identification and traceability
13. Property belonging to customers or external providers
14. Preservation of product
15. Control of nonconforming outputs
16. Monitoring and measurement
17. Audits

📌 These sections may be tailored to each project, but all should be addressed meaningfully for the PQP to function as a working tool.

Practical PQP in construction
In construction and industrial projects, a working PQP typically includes:
• Project scope and application
• Responsibility matrix
• List of applicable standards and procedures (GOST, SNiP, ISO, etc.)
• Document control procedures
• Inspection and Test Plan (ITP), which specifies:
◦ operations subject to inspection
◦ control methods
◦ control stages (Hold / Witness / Review)
◦ responsible and approving parties
🔎 Note: The term “Inspection and Test Plan (ITP)” is not explicitly used in ISO 10005:2018, but its contents are covered in sections such as “Processes, products and services provided externally” and “Monitoring and measurement”.

What makes a good PQP?
• All project participants understand what is required, when, and how
• Quality control becomes clear and systematic
• Responsibility is distributed and documented
• Handover, audits, and inspections happen smoothly and predictably
📌 Project control starts with predictability — and predictability in quality begins with a well-structured PQP.

❓Question for discussion:
Have you ever worked on a project where the PQP was actively used on site — not just stored for audits?
Let us know in the comments:
— how your organization handles PQPs,
— what makes them truly useful in practice.

📌 In the next post, we’ll review what to focus on when reassessing a Quality Plan, including:
• 🔍 internal audits,
• 🗂 updates to internal company documentation,
• 📦 reviewing supplier or contractor documentation.
We’ll explore how to identify whether a PQP reflects the actual project reality — or needs to be revised.

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