There you are – standing in your kitchen, wearing your most jolly bowtie – surrounded by culinary ingredients you never even knew existed. Why did you promise to cook the Christmas turkey again? It is the most wonderful time of the year and as households around the globe are making their preparations and gathering ingredients [...]
Learning how to make risk-based decisions using bowties The risk manager's dilemma When is ‘safe’, ‘safe enough’? In other words, when is the risk we’re taking within acceptable limits? That’s the question that lies at the heart of a risk manager’s task. You carefully weigh the risk and the amount of barriers (i.e. risk reduction [...]
Although the year isn’t over yet, it is safe to say which blogs have been best read in the year 2020. Overall themes? Turning your Excel into a bowtie diagram, dealing with COVID-19, and the abuse of bowties and how to prevent it. Grab a cup of coffee and find our top 3 below. 1 [...]
Bowtie forms the basis of barrier based EHS risk management Organizations have various specific reasons to adopt the bowtie method. It is generally accepted that risk control and regulatory compliance are the main reasons for using bowtie in EHS risk management. In the first blog of this series, we discussed the use of bowtie in [...]
