RISK IS GIVEN A FRONT-AND-CENTER PRESENCE IN SECTION 6 OF THE STANDARD.
Years in the making, the ISO 9001:2015 revision has been published. Prior to the release date, auditors, inspectors, quality managers, and many others studied the initial drafts in an attempt to understand the changes. Readers immediately recognized that risk would be a major concept within the quality management systems standard.
Companies will use the next three years to fully implement the standard. To do so, risk—as well as risk management and risk-based thinking—will need to be understood and incorporated into your quality management system (QMS).