This standard contains a set of questions that can be used to evaluate a quality system to the
requirements of various industry standards, such as the "'Q9000' series, EIA599, and the Malcolm
Baldrige criteria. The standard reference columns in the checklist provide a crossreference from
each of the checklist questions to the applicable paragraphs in the various quality standards. The
crossreference can be used to create abbreviated checklists for evaluation of quality systems to a
desired standard only. The section headings for the checklist match the elements of the
*ANSI/ASQC 49001 (ISO9001) standard. The questions that are referenced to the Malcolm
Baldrige Award criteria, if answered positively, will indicate only that the quality system has all of
the elements necessary to respond to the Malcolm Baldrige questions, not how well the system may
be scored in competition.