Developing Quality Manual from scratch

I have just joined marine company as a safety and quality manager. I have now been tasked to develop a quality manual to submit for our next Invitation to tender which closes in 2 weeks.

This company is a marine company supplying small vessels on lease to our clients at day rate basis and call out basis. Our aim to to be able to bid fro jobs with the oil companies and supply big vessels and barges or even drilling rigs.

In the meantime we provide tank cleaning services, and maintenance services like Blasting and painting works. We do not manufacture any products but at times may be required to fabricate or build jets for the clients so that boats or ships can come alongside to drop off personnel and equipment.

Answer:

If you need to develop all documentation required by ISO 9001 from scratch in two weeks, I'm afraid that it won't be possible without some additional help. Since you have only two weeks to do it, I suggest you to focus primarily on the mandatory documents required by ISO 9001 and not to dev elop a manual, since it is no longer a mandatory document. Here you can see what documents are required by the standard: List of mandatory documents required by ISO 9001:2015 https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/list-of-mandatory-documents-required-by-iso-90012015/

If you are required to have the manual, you should develop it in a way that it coves all requirements and yet to be short rather than lengthy document. Try avoiding any theory about the standard, such as terms and definitions and detailed history of the organization, but focus on the key information that the manual should contain. In any case avoid making the document longer that 10 pages. Here is one very interesting article that might help you: Writing a short Quality Manual https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/writing-a-short-quality-manual/

These materials will also help you regarding the QMS documentation:
- Book Managing ISO Documentation: A Plain English Guide https://advisera.com/books/managing-iso-documentation-plain-english-guide/
- Free online training ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
- Conformio (online tool for ISO 9001) https://advisera.com/conformio/ "