CorridorIQDocumentation risk assessment

One manufacturer, one product family, five days.

A documentation risk assessment establishes what a manufacturer's instruction set carries, who is on the hook for it, and how badly it would read in a disclosure bundle. It is desk-based, fixed fee, and delivered as a controlled document.

Inputwhat we need

What has to arrive before it starts.

  • The document set for one product family — typically a user manual, a maintenance manual, a health check guide with its record sheet, an installation manual and a datasheet.
  • Whatever is referred to but not held. What a set cites and cannot produce is a finding in its own right.
  • The signed non-disclosure agreement. Nothing technical is received before it exists.
  • Where the material came from, and confirmation that whoever commissioned the assessment is entitled to share it.

Drawings, risk assessments and the technical file are useful and not required. An assessment runs on the documents a customer would actually receive.

Outputsix parts

What comes back.

Cover determination

Whether the product falls in scope, and which party carries the manufacturer obligation. One page, and frequently the one that matters.

Rating

A single position for the set, with the findings beneath it as the evidence for it.

Findings register

Every finding numbered, cited to the clause behind it and quoted from the client's own wording, with a severity and a specific remedy.

Evidence gap list

What does not exist at all. Usually worse than what exists badly.

Remediation plan

Sequenced, with effort against each item, so the work can be taken in-house or handed back.

Scope and limitations

What was not reviewed, and the explicit statement that this is not a conformity assessment.

Critical

Blocks lawful placing on the market, or would not survive challenge after a claim.

Major

Defensible, but weak under challenge.

Minor

Housekeeping. Recorded, not urgent.

Triggerwhen it is commissioned

Four points where somebody needs to know.

Pre-bind

Underwriting information on a manufacturing risk, before the exposure is accepted.

Risk improvement

Cover written subject to a documentation review, with a defined period to close the findings.

Renewal

An annual position on a set that has been revised, extended or left alone since the last review.

After a claim

Whether the instruction set was defensible at the point the product was placed on the market.

Limitsstated, not implied

What an assessment is not.

  • Not a conformity assessment, and not certification or approval of any kind.
  • Not the work of a notified body. CorridorIQ is not one and does not act as one.
  • Not compilation or sign-off of the technical file, and not a declaration of conformity.
  • Not legal advice on liability, obligation or interpretation.

A determination is a reasoned position with its evidence and its limits stated. Where a question belongs to a notified body or a legal adviser, it is flagged rather than answered. How the work is run.

Send one product family. We will tell you what sits between the documents.

A non-disclosure agreement is in place before any technical material is received.

  • The manufacturer and the product family involved
  • Which documents exist, and which are referred to but not held
  • Whether this is pre-bind, renewal, a risk improvement condition, or a claim
  • Your timescale