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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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CGE latest news
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 [...]
Bowtie activity increasing in Brazil
In the past few years, CGE and its partners have organized workshops in Brazil to demonstrate how the bowtie methodology can help organizations improve their risk management. Currently, more and more people in this region are interested in applying the bowtie method, to manage their organizational risks. To further support current bowtie activity in Brazil, we [...]
Successful 1st Edition of the Barrier Based Risk Management Summit in India
Last week, the first edition of the Barrier Based Risk Management Summit in India took place. Local Indian partner Sudaksha took the initiative to organize this event which turned out to be a success. The event was set up as a 2-day conference. On day 1, various speakers from different industries shared their knowledge about barrier [...]
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