How we design and implement systems and processes can play a large role in determining their usability. Poor usability can contribute to avoidable risks. This post addresses the need to employ risk identification and mitigation techniques in the course of designing things in order to minimize the probability of negative outcomes.
Does ISO 9001: 2015 require risk management?
No.
ISO says all that is needed to demonstrate ISO 9001:2015 compliance is a risk assessment?
But does ISO 9001:2015 imply risk management?
Yes, based on a careful read by our team of forensic risk engineers. See if the following makes sense:. Continue reading
In my auditor’s peregrinations (I borrow the term from a recent Mr. Greg Hutchins’s e-mail message) I often met with organizational structures represented – more or less graphically – as pyramids or triangular shapes: the organization’s top management down to the work-force level. Continue reading
Accelerated life testing (ALT) provides a means to estimate the failure rate over time of a product without resorting to normal use conditions and the associated duration. In ALT, one uses a variety of methods to compress time. Continue reading