At CGE we think holidays are very important. To celebrate, we have created a Spotify Playlist especially for all the safety enthusiasts in our network who always put safety first, no matter what! Find out which songs are in the ‘Safe and Sound’ playlist and let us know which one(s) you are missing in the [...]
Having walked through the previous ISO 31000 steps, we now come to the “Recording and Reporting” step. Recording is about recording information in a risk register so that this information can then be reported to decision-makers. In a sense this is what the bowtie does best – it records risks which can then be reported [...]
Guest blog by David Hatch from Process Safety Integrity Hazards 29 is Europe’s leading process safety forum. At this year’s event, industry expert Andy Geddes and CGE Partner David Hatch from Process Safety Integrity presented their new CHASE concept. Their work has developed a practical methodology for Computer Hazard And Security Evaluation. You can't defend [...]
We hereby announce that the BowTieXP SharePoint add-on will be End Of Life by the end of this year. The main reason for the EOL is that the maintenance on the add-on becomes very hard, because of (ongoing) changes to the way SharePoint works. In addition to that, nowadays, the basic Microsoft SharePoint functionality covers [...]
This week’s blog is on Risk Treatment. It is an important step in completing the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle for continuous quality improvement. Much like a doctor and her patient, before we can treat our operations, we need to diagnose what the problem is and where our treatment should be applied. Once the cure has been diagnosed, [...]
In the past blogs, we covered how to set the scope, identify major risks and analyze them using the bowtie methodology. In this edition, our focus is on evaluating the risk which was analyzed previously. It is possible to evaluate risks in different ways, divided into two categories, the qualitative and the quantitative way. Using [...]
The 9-step Critical Control Management (CCM) process was shown in the last article with a discussion about the need to establish quality Control-Based Risk Management (CBRM) for priority unwanted events (step 3) before moving to CCM. This article will continue with the CCM process, presenting a variety of approaches to selecting potential critical controls (step [...]
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. [...]
In our last blog, we briefly mentioned ISO 31000 guidelines on risk analysis and then introduced the bowtie methodology. In this week’s blog, we will explore this in more detail using the bowtie methodology. According to the ISO 31000 guideline, you should consider multiple factors during the risk analysis phase. As the International Organization of [...]
In our previous blogs, we talked about risk identification. Walking through this process, you end up with a large list of potential incidents scenarios, in other words: a risk register. A question we often get is: “Do we need to make a bowtie for every risk identified?” Well, the answer is no. ISO 31000 recommends [...]
