Quality Management Plan

As a laboratory, although a formal risk management program is not required, you need to address risks efficiently and rate them in a way so that actions can be justified and appropriate to the level of risk.

For more information regarding actions to address risks and opportunities, see the ISO 17025 toolkit document template: Addressing Risks and Opportunities Procedure at https://advisera.com/17025academy/documentation/addressing-risks-and-opportunities-procedure/

and for more information on the five steps to address risks, see the article Five-step laboratory risk management according to ISO 17025:2017 at https://advisera.com/17025academy/blog/2019/12/05/iso-17025-risk-management-in-five-steps/

For a more detailed explanation, you can watch the free webinar How to manage risks in laboratories according to ISO 17025 at https://advisera.com/17025academy/webinar/iso-17025-risk-management-how-to-manage-it-free-webinar-on-demand/

Also have a look at the following for more information - Expert Community Answers

• 8.5 Actions to address risks and opportunities (Option A) (new) at https://community.advisera.com/topic/8-5-actions-to-address-risks-and-opportunities-option-a-new/
• What is the efficient way and tricks to address, handle and treat the risk and opportunity? at https://community.advisera.com/topic/what-is-the-efficient-way-and-tricks-to-address-handle-and-treat-the-risk-and-opportunity/