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Process safety is about answering three simple questions
Making risk understandable
Only when risks are completely understood, they can be managed.
Barrier based & visual
The barrier based approach makes risk visual and understandable for anyone.
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“Barrier failure or weakening is often a causal factor in accidents and incidents. State Supervision of Mines uses bowties to identify the weak barriers by analyzing different incidents.
The insights from the bowties are helpful in assisting the gas network operators with their safety programs.”
State Supervision of Mines, The Netherlands“Some people were a bit skeptical, until we started making bowties in BowTieXP. They could actually see the progression of the threat, through the top event, ultimately ending up with the undesirable consequence, and what controls are in place to prevent this. If we had to do exactly the same in a text document, it would have to be a very large document to cover the same information. The bowtie format is very effective.”
Civil Aviation Authority, United KingdomCivil Aviation Authority, United Kingdom“Barrier failure or weakening is often a causal factor in accidents and incidents. State Supervision of Mines uses bowties to identify the weak barriers by analyzing different incidents. The insights from the bowties are helpful in assisting the gas network operators with their safety programs.”
State Supervision of Mines, The Netherlands
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End of life SharePoint add-on for BowTieXP
We hereby announce that the BowTieXP SharePoint add-on will be End Of Life by the end of this year. The main reason for the EOL is that the maintenance on the add-on becomes very hard, because of (ongoing) changes to the way SharePoint works. In addition to that, nowadays, the basic Microsoft SharePoint functionality covers a [...]
Cross industry knowledge sharing in Rome…like the Romans do
On the 6th of June we organized a ‘Cross Industry Bowtie’ event in Rome. With the event, we wanted to provide a platform to exchange experiences across industries and discuss how we could take bowties to the next level in Italy. The presentations shared by both local partners & clients like TECSA Srl, Human Factor Italia, [...]
LNER using bowtie to plan for contingency
The London North Eastern Railway, formerly known as Virgin Trains East Coast, developed a bowtie to be used as both a risk assessment and a project plan. In case of a strike, the company has two weeks to organize contingency operations. Using the bowtie ensures the operations are just as safe as during normal operations. “We [...]
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