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SOPs can also provide employees with a reference to common business practices, activities or tasks. New employees use an SOP to answer questions without having to interrupt supervisors to ask how an operation is performed. The international quality standard [[ISO 9001]] essentially requires the determination of processes (documented as standard operating procedures) used in any manufacturing process that could affect the quality of the product.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/management_standards/quality_management/iso_9001_2008/guidance_on_the_documentation_requirements_of_iso_9001_2008.htm |title=Guidance on the Documentation Requirements of ISO 9001:2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015230555/http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/management_standards/quality_management/iso_9001_2008/guidance_on_the_documentation_requirements_of_iso_9001_2008.htm |archivedate=2011-10-15 }}</ref>
 
''' IT IS A TYPE OF OPARATIN IN VARIOUS FUNCTIONS LIKE A SOFTWARE UPDATING TO EACH AND EVARY THING IT ALSO HELP FOR CREATIN NEW THINGS'''==Health, safety and environment==
==Health, safety and environment==
Procedures are extensively employed to assist with working safely. They are sometimes called "safe work methods statements" (SWMS, pronounced as 'swims'). Their development is usually preceded by various methods of analyzing tasks or jobs to be performed in a workplace, including an approach called [[job safety analysis]], in which hazards are identified and their control methods described. Procedures must be suited to the literacy levels of the user, so the readability of procedures is important.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Geoffrey A. |date=2012 |title=Readability of OHS documents - A comparison of surface characteristics of OHS text between some languages |journal=[[Safety Science]] |volume=50 |number=7 |pages=1627–1635 |doi=10.1016/j.ssci.2012.01.016 |url=https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/4224 }}</ref>