How To Address Risk in ISO 9001

Written: 29th July 2019 - Author: Richard Keen

For companies operating under the ISO 9001 system, they might have noticed that risk-based thinking has been given a far more prominent role in the 2015 standard than it’s received in the past.

The ISO 9001: standard outlines a process of four steps for addressing risk and opportunity:

• Identify the risks and opportunities
• Plan your response
• Integrate the response into your quality management system(QMS)
• Evaluate effectivenes

This process largely falls in line with the process and standards already demanded by the ISO 9001 system. This is just the principles of the ISO 9001 standard as applied to risk and opportunity.
What Do These Steps Demand?

Each step in this process will require a company to apply the core principles of the ISO 9001 standard to the concept of risk and opportunity. Because of this, any company that is already operating under this standard should have no trouble implementing these new requirements.

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