Training Module

Risk Management Foundations

Learn the fundamentals of identifying, evaluating, treating, and monitoring risks and opportunities across management systems

Training Module

Risk Management Foundations

Learn the fundamentals of identifying, evaluating, treating, and monitoring risks and opportunities across management systems

Training Module

Risk Management Foundations

Learn the fundamentals of identifying, evaluating, treating, and monitoring risks and opportunities across management systems

Abstract data visualization with layered signals and indicators, representing risk management foundations through structured risk identification, evaluation, and decision-ready risk information.

Are your risk registers providing lists of issues, but lacking actionable insights for decision-making?

This module establishes a repeatable risk logic that ensures traceability to decisions, actions, and review, without introducing unnecessary complexity.

Abstract data visualization with layered signals and indicators, representing risk management foundations through structured risk identification, evaluation, and decision-ready risk information.

Are your risk registers providing lists of issues, but lacking actionable insights for decision-making?

This module establishes a repeatable risk logic that ensures traceability to decisions, actions, and review, without introducing unnecessary complexity.

Abstract data visualization with layered signals and indicators, representing risk management foundations through structured risk identification, evaluation, and decision-ready risk information.

Are your risk registers providing lists of issues, but lacking actionable insights for decision-making?

This module establishes a repeatable risk logic that ensures traceability to decisions, actions, and review, without introducing unnecessary complexity.

Training module overview

Training module overview

Training module overview

Many organizations struggle with fragmented risk management practices, leading to inconsistent prioritization and weak connections between risks, controls, and improvement efforts.

This training module addresses these challenges by providing a framework for building a coherent risk and opportunity process applicable across various management systems. Participants will learn to define practical risk criteria, structure a consistent risk register, and develop treatment plans that translate into owned actions, ensuring risk information is current and supports effective decision-making.

Many organizations struggle with fragmented risk management practices, leading to inconsistent prioritization and weak connections between risks, controls, and improvement efforts.

This training module addresses these challenges by providing a framework for building a coherent risk and opportunity process applicable across various management systems. Participants will learn to define practical risk criteria, structure a consistent risk register, and develop treatment plans that translate into owned actions, ensuring risk information is current and supports effective decision-making.

Applicable environments

This module is applicable across a wide range of management systems and organisational contexts. The concepts are not tied to a specific ISO standard and are used wherever organisations need clear, workable processes, defined ownership, and embedded controls.

It is commonly applied in quality, information security, environmental, and other ISO-based management systems, as well as in non-certified environments that require structured, auditable operations.

Target audience

Target audience

Target audience

  • Management system implementers and coordinators

  • Executives and department heads accountable for management system performance

  • Those responsible for processes, policies, assets, risks, and controls related to a management system

  • Auditors seeking insights into management-side best practice (not audit technique)

  • Management consultants working with management system design, governance, or improvement

  • Management system implementers and coordinators

  • Executives and department heads accountable for management system performance

  • Those responsible for processes, policies, assets, risks, and controls related to a management system

  • Auditors seeking insights into management-side best practice (not audit technique)

  • Management consultants working with management system design, governance, or improvement

Decision support

Is this module for you?

It is a good fit if you…

  • are responsible for risk-related aspects of a management system.

  • want to move beyond formal risk registers to decision-relevant risk information.

  • experience risk assessments that exist on paper but do not drive priorities.

  • need risks to inform decisions, actions, and resource allocation.

  • want a simple, repeatable risk logic that stays usable over time.

  • are responsible for risk-related aspects of a management system.

  • want to move beyond formal risk registers to decision-relevant risk information.

  • experience risk assessments that exist on paper but do not drive priorities.

  • need risks to inform decisions, actions, and resource allocation.

  • want a simple, repeatable risk logic that stays usable over time.

If most of the points above apply, this module is likely a good fit.

It may not be the best fit if you…

  • already operate a clear, consistently applied risk approach used in decisions.

  • have no mandate or interest in shaping how risks are handled in the system.

  • need detailed risk modelling, quantitative analysis, or tool configuration.

  • expect a checklist-driven risk method without contextual judgment.

  • already operate a clear, consistently applied risk approach used in decisions.

  • have no mandate or interest in shaping how risks are handled in the system.

  • need detailed risk modelling, quantitative analysis, or tool configuration.

  • expect a checklist-driven risk method without contextual judgment.

Agenda

Agenda

Agenda

  • What “risk and opportunity” means in management systems

  • Risk inputs and boundaries

  • A consistent risk process

  • Risk criteria and comparability

  • Designing a useful risk register

  • Opportunities in practice

  • Risk treatment and action planning

  • Monitoring, review, and keeping it alive

  • Digital and AI support

  • Case-based workshop

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  • What “risk and opportunity” means in management systems

  • Risk inputs and boundaries

  • A consistent risk process

  • Risk criteria and comparability

  • Designing a useful risk register

  • Opportunities in practice

  • Risk treatment and action planning

  • Monitoring, review, and keeping it alive

  • Digital and AI support

  • Case-based workshop

Show detailed agenda...

  • What “risk and opportunity” means in management systems

  • Risk inputs and boundaries

  • A consistent risk process

  • Risk criteria and comparability

  • Designing a useful risk register

  • Opportunities in practice

  • Risk treatment and action planning

  • Monitoring, review, and keeping it alive

  • Digital and AI support

  • Case-based workshop

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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Key outcomes

  • Apply a repeatable risk process across multiple management systems

  • Define practical risk criteria that improve comparability across teams

  • Structure a risk register that keeps risks traceable to inputs, controls, and actions

  • Apply a repeatable risk process across multiple management systems

  • Define practical risk criteria that improve comparability across teams

  • Structure a risk register that keeps risks traceable to inputs, controls, and actions

Additional capabilities

  • Explain how management system standards integrate risk and opportunity thinking

  • Integrate opportunities into the existing risk management logic

  • Build risk treatment plans that lead to owned actions and are regularly reviewed

  • Recognize common failure modes and implement routines to maintain current risk information

  • Explain how management system standards integrate risk and opportunity thinking

  • Integrate opportunities into the existing risk management logic

  • Build risk treatment plans that lead to owned actions and are regularly reviewed

  • Recognize common failure modes and implement routines to maintain current risk information

Additional benefits

Additional benefits

Additional benefits

Learning materials

  • Slide deck

  • Participant workbook

Templates & tools

Practical, reusable artefacts to apply the module directly to your organisation.

  • Risk management process

  • Risk register template

  • Risk criteria and scoring guideline

  • Risk and opportunity identification checklist

  • Risk treatment and action plan template

  • Risk review agenda and checklist

  • AI prompt set for risk management

  • Risk management process

  • Risk register template

  • Risk criteria and scoring guideline

  • Risk and opportunity identification checklist

  • Risk treatment and action plan template

  • Risk review agenda and checklist

  • AI prompt set for risk management

Confirmation

  • Certificate of completion

Module ID

HAM-AG-C-07

Domain

Audience

Auditor

Manager

Language

English

Delivery

Live virtual

Duration

7 h

List price

CHF 550

Excl. VAT. VAT may apply depending on customer location and status.

Delivery & learning format

Delivery & learning format

Delivery & learning format

Virtual live teaching

This module is delivered live, with a strong focus on discussion, practical application, and direct interaction with the instructor.

Sessions work through realistic examples, clarify concepts in context, and apply methods directly to participants’ organisational realities.

Custom delivery options

For organisations with specific constraints or learning objectives, the module can be adapted in format or scope, including in-house delivery and contextualised case material.

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Preparation guidance

This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.

For an optimal learning experience

Preparation guidance

This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.

For an optimal learning experience

Preparation guidance

This module is designed as part of a modular training approach. Topics are deliberately distributed across modules and are not repeated in full, in order to avoid unnecessary redundancy. Each module is self-contained and can be taken on its own. Where prior knowledge or experience is helpful, this is indicated below so you can decide whether any preparation is useful for you.

Assumed background

No formal prerequisites. This module assumes general familiarity with management system concepts and organisational processes.

Helpful background includes:

  • Basic understanding of how management systems are structured and maintained

  • Familiarity with roles, responsibilities, and operational decision-making

No formal prerequisites. This module assumes general familiarity with management system concepts and organisational processes.

Helpful background includes:

  • Basic understanding of how management systems are structured and maintained

  • Familiarity with roles, responsibilities, and operational decision-making

Preparatory modules

Foundational modules (depending on background)

Useful if you are new to the underlying concepts or want a shared baseline before attending this module.

System Foundations

Understand organisational context, stakeholders, and system boundaries to build and operate effective management systems

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System Foundations

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Continuous learning

Follow-up modules

Continuous learning

Follow-up modules

Continuous learning

Follow-up modules

After completion of this module, the following modules are ideal to further deepen your competence. If you are looking for a structured learning path, modules can also be taken as part of a professional track.

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List price

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.