RBT is a good to great concept for ISO. However, there are problems.
RBT as defined and described by ISO is difficult to operationalize or audit. How do you operationalize or audit Risk Based Thinking? What evidence, artifacts, or data is the auditor going to find based on someone’s thinking? So, how do you read someone’s thoughts? Not unless you have taken and passed Mind Reading 101 course, you can not audit Risk Based Thinking.
However, you can audit Risk Based Thinking artifacts. For this reason, we define RBT as:
- Risk based, problem solving.
- Risk based, decision making™
Why? Both of the above bullets are demonstrable, auditable, and offer verifiable evidence to a Certification Body of conformance.
Lesson Learned: RBT is a good concept that needs to be operationalized and be auditable based on 1. Risk based, problem solving and 2. Risk based, decision making.
Bio:
Greg Hutchins PE and CERM (503.233.101 & GregH@QualityPlusEngineering.com) is the founder of:
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