Risk & Part 11 Impact Assessment Rationale.
It is worth considering the end of the assessment before starting. There are literally dozens of very clever and very sophisticated RIA systems on the market that will give a very detailed predictive analysis from a set of conditions. Once the risk is defined there will be many ways of, spreading it, reducing it, diverting it, accommodating it or even suppressing it. With an equipment validation scope RIA, our ability to respond to the RIA findings is constrained. Constrained by the fact that we do not have dozens of ways to respond, in fact we have only four. The RIA must be used to decide into which of these four categories each piece of equipment belongs, in order that the equipment is subjected to the appropriate level of validation.