ANSI ASQC Z1.13-1999 pdf download AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD Quality Guidelines for Research Approved as an American National Standard by: ANSI Accredited Standards Committee Z1 on Quality Assurance American Society for Quality, Secretariat
4 THE MANAGEMENT OF BASIC AND APPLDED RESEARCH PROJECTS The research organization should require scientists to develop a research plan or research proposal that describes the conduct of the research. Research plans may define an entire program of research in which muliple scientists perform studies in a particular sci- entific field. For very large and complex experiments, a research plan may be generated for each experiment. Any changes to the established management sysems (or any other requirements) should be specifed in the research plan. This guidelincs document should be used by the research organization to deveiop research plans, and by the funding agency or primary external customer to review those plans. The sections below describe what should be included or referenced in a typical research plan. When research is performed in an organization that has implemented an institution- wide QA program, redundancy and duplica- tion in terms of developing the clements of a research plan should be avoided.
The objective should be to ensure that the elements described in this guideline are covered either (1) by including a description of these elements in a research plan as described below, ur (2) by including a reference in the research plan as to how the element is satisfed by a highe-level institutional QA program. The research organization should be committed to managing its technical work in accordance with accepted principles of project management and should ensure that all in-house and subcontracted research projects meet the requirements defined in research pians with respect to the quality of scientifc results, cost and schedule, and environmental, safcty, and health concerns.
4.1 Responsbility for the research The research pian should identify (1) a principal inves- tigator (or project manager) who is responsible for the research and (2) the funding agency or the primary external customer of that research. The principal investigator may delegate work to others who are qualified to do the research.