Form · FRM-33
Confidentiality and Impartiality Declaration
Signed undertaking by staff, contractors and committee members.
Purpose
The signed undertaking by every person who could influence laboratory activities - employees, contractors, consultants, committee members - to act impartially, declare conflicts of interest and keep confidential all information obtained or created during laboratory activities, renewed annually.
What it covers
- Undertaking
- Declaration of interests
How to complete it
- 1.Every person signs on engagement and annually thereafter; the Quality Manager reviews declarations and files them in the personnel competence file.
- 2.Declare all relationships and interests listed; where none, write 'none'. Update the declaration whenever circumstances change.
- 3.The undertaking survives the end of engagement.
Before you use it
- Replace every square-bracket token, starting with [LABORATORY NAME], [ADDRESS] and [EFFECTIVE DATE]. The full token list is in GD-01 Read Me First.
- Have the content technically reviewed against how your laboratory actually works, then approved by the responsible manager before it becomes a controlled document.
- Update the Word fields after editing so the table of contents and page numbers are correct: select all, then press F9.
- Record the document in your own document register and set its review date.
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Structural safeguards, declarations, risk identification and handling of confidential information.
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Request, impact assessment and approval of a change to a controlled document.