SUMMARY
The article is devoted to peculiarities of risk management in pharmacy. The sources and objects of the risk with their division into internal and external ones have been studied. For each of the risk factors those components of the organization being affected at first have been defined. Therefore, the internal factors include the level of management, the stage of the life cycle of the organization, its financial condition, production and innovation potential, the quality management system, etc. The external factors include the impact of public health policies, domestic and international law, the political and economic situation in the country, etc. The data of literature regarding methods of risk management has been summarized. The methods, which are proposed for use in risk management, have been determined. Thus, the most common version of the classification, which is the most appropriate for practice activity, includes evasion, dispersion, compensation and location. In our opinion, limitation as a way to manage certain forms of risk should be added.