The words “risk” or “risks” have been sprinkled throughout the 2015 revision of the ISO 9000 standard. Although some “requirements” will be easy to satisfy using well-established process monitoring or capability techniques other references to risk are so vaguely stated as to be open to a myriad of interpretations and thus become meaningless. Having read and re-read the current references to risk spread over several paragraphs I wonder if it would not have been better to address risk in one paragraph at the beginning of the standard. I have “cut and paste” most of the current references to risk and included brief comments. Continue reading
#20 – THE MANY UNCERTAINTIES OF RISK AS CURRENTLY STATED IN ISO 9001-2015 – JAMES LAMPRECHT
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