Wolters Kluwer announces today that it has completed the acquisition of CGE Risk Management Solutions, as originally announced on January 16, 2020. CGE Risk Management Solutions B.V. (CGE) is a leading provider of risk management software, including the industry-standard BowTieXP solution. This barrier-based risk management solution for visual and qualitative risk assessment can be used [...]
Welcome to the 9th article in the series. Article 8 overviewed the selection of critical controls, hopefully generating some thoughts about setting company or site objectives for moving to CCM, as well as considering the concept of ‘indicativeness’ as a potential critical control requirement. Critical control? This article will continue with the critical control selection [...]
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 [...]
Two ways to evaluate your risk How do you evaluate risk? In this blog, we describe two functionalities that will help you to evaluate your risks and to see the strengths and weaknesses of your processes. The previous blog describes different approaches to evaluate risk, namely the qualitative way and quantitative way. In this part [...]
Guest blog by Prof. Coen van Gulijk from University of Huddersfield How to extract in-depth learning from 200,000 reports per year? Big data text analysis for BowTies. Dealing with vast numbers of text-based safety records One of the challenges for safety managers is dealing with vast amounts of data. Especially when it comes to near-miss reporting [...]
Welcome to the 6th article in a series intended to generate discussion amongst H&S risk professionals and managers about improvements to the site Operational Risk Management (ORM) thinking and methods. The content should also help ORM personnel ‘influence’ line management at all levels. The term, ‘influence’, has been deliberately selected to highlight the need for [...]
Professor Safety in healthcare Prof. dr. Jop Groeneweg, one of the subject matter experts CGE works closely with, is appointed as professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology. You might have seen Prof. dr. Jop Groeneweg in the online Risk Expert Sessions or have attended the ‘Safety culture [...]
Guest blog by Prof. Luca Fiorentini and Prof. Luca Marmo A good investigator collects evidence, analyzes them, finds the root causes and the relations among these causes that lead to the accident and provides suggestions about corrective actions to avoid the reoccurrence of the undesired event. In this blog, Prof. Luca Fiorentini and Prof. Luca [...]
Guest blog by Coen van Gulijk, professor of railway safety and risk at the University of Huddersfield. Bowties are an effective visual representation of the risk space that you want to control. Bowties connect hazards, threats, consequences and most importantly controls in a clear interface. With the new BowTieServer, several functions can be added to bowties [...]
When incidents in the rail industry happen, this often has an enormous impact on both individuals and equipment. Most organizations operating in this industry have personnel at all kinds of levels deal with risk on a day to day basis. It can be a real challenge to actively engage (non-risk) management teams, to make sure [...]
