In a previous blog, we have already introduced the guidelines for creating a basic bowtie diagram. Now it is time for you to apply CGE guidelines and the guidelines written in the CCPS/EI book 'Bow Ties in Risk Management' to create a usable bowtie. This concept book introduces how to create a qualified bowtie and [...]
As CGE, we really appreciate universities seeing the value of the bowtie method and practical benefits of BowTieXP. We are proud the barrier based approach is part of study programs that educate the new generation of Risk Managers. The University of Manchester has been successfully doing so with its innovative 'Essential Risk Management for Business' [...]
Earlier this month, CGE hosted a webinar with help of partners. In this webinar, guidance was provided as to how you can re-establish working arrangements while ensuring that the risk of infection from COVID-19 is reduced as far as is reasonably practicable. An important matter, as together we face one of the biggest behavioral challenges [...]
The global spread of the COVID-19 virus has caused a tremendous impact on the aviation industry, as on everybody’s daily lives. Therefore, CGE supports an initiative that could support organizations in this sector to safely pick-up operations again as soon as practicable. An industry initiative Guided by several international organizations clean transit routes, clean aircraft, [...]
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 [...]
