Throughout ISO management systems, there is a reliance addressing your organisation's risks and opportunities. These should be relevant to the context of your organisation as well as any interested parties. You should ensure that your organisation has applied a risk identification methodology consistently and effectively. This is very important and at the heart of all four of our ISO standards which all take a risk-based approach. Indeed, in ISO 9001 alone, reference to risk-based thinking is present in all of the following clauses:
ISO defines a risk as the ‘effect of uncertainty on the expected result’. Effective management of risk is talked about well in advance to ensure there are less surprises, improved planning, effective decision making and better relationships with stakeholders. Effective management of risk leads to better performance, continual improvement and increases customer satisfaction. Opportunities are considered the positive side of risk which is why ISO 9001:2015 focuses on reducing risk and identifying opportunities. External and internal issues, and relevant needs and expectations of relevant interested parties, may be sources of risks. All management system processes represent differing levels of risk in terms of your organisation’s ability to meet its objectives. Due to this reason, the consequences of failures or non-conformities in relation to processes, systems, products and/or services will not be the same for all organisations. Risk and opportunity register While not mandated by ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 or ISO 27001, risk and opportunity registers can help identify and record the risks and opportunities facing different areas of the business and identifying risk is a critical step in managing it. Risk and opportunity registers will allow your organisation to assess the risk in context with the overall context of your organisation, and will help to record the controls and treatments of those risks. Risk and opportunity registers can be developed in tiers:
The risk and opportunity register or risk log becomes essential as it records identified risks and opportunity, their severity, and the actions and steps to be taken. It can be a simple document, spreadsheet, or a database system, but the most effective format is a table. A table presents a great deal of information in just a few pages. As the register is a living document, it is important to record the date that risks are identified or modified. Optional dates to include are the target and completion dates.
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