Addressing risks and opportunities

Answer:

In order to properly assess the risk and opportunities, you need first to determine the scope of your assessment. The standard requires organization to address risks and opportunities emerging from the context of the organization regarding quality management system and ability of the organization to achieve its objectives, so you only need to identify risks and opportunities regarding context of the organization, QMS and the objectives of the organization.

Once you determine the scope of your assessment and identify risks and opportunities, you need to evaluate them to define what risks and opportunities are the most important and require actions to be addressed.

Next step is to plan actions to address the risks and opportunities, this includes defining responsibilities, resources and deadlines for addressing risks and opportunities. Once the actions are planed and executed, the results of the actions need to be reviewed to determine whether the risks and opportunitie s are address and to see if there is a need for additional actions. This is usually done during the management review.

For more information, see:
- The Role of Risk Assessment in the QMS https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2014/01/07/role-risk-assessment-qms/