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 [...]
Today the first episode of the Risk Expert Sessions with Prof. dr. Jop Groeneweg is published. In this session, the topic discussed is risk management in general. In our blog we further explain the contradictions that are brought forward in the interview. Safety versus security Risk management is part of both the safety as well [...]
We have been talking to experts about a number of interesting topics like blame culture, learning from incidents, big data & bowties and advanced barrier management. The result: CGE Risk Expert Sessions, interview videos with subject matter experts. As we believe in sharing knowledge, we aim to provide you with valuable insights and relevant [...]
Guest Blog by David Hatch Also the brewing and distilling industry must cover and control hazards in order to avoid unwanted consequences. In this blog David Hatch (Process Safety Analyst at Process Safety Integrity) gives a brief introduction to a recent article on barrier based risk management that was published in the Brewer and Distiller [...]
Organizations want to focus on their primary process, because this generates revenue and added value for their goals. As in any process where humans are involved, human factors play an important role. Risks of potential deviations from the primary process need to be mapped in order to identify causes and system controls. These risks can [...]
