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 [...]
In the past few years, CGE and its partners have organized workshops in Brazil to demonstrate how the bowtie methodology can help organizations improve their risk management. Currently, more and more people in this region are interested in applying the bowtie method, to manage their organizational risks. To further support current bowtie activity in Brazil, [...]
Last week, the first edition of the Barrier Based Risk Management Summit in India took place. Local Indian partner Sudaksha took the initiative to organize this event which turned out to be a success. The event was set up as a 2-day conference. On day 1, various speakers from different industries shared their knowledge about [...]
In our last blog, we discussed how the risk identification phase looks like according to ISO 31000. One thing we noted is “The bowtie is not a specialized hazard identification method” which is true, but we do offer a risk or hazard identification tool in our BowTieServer tool. How to identify risk in BowTieServer The [...]
Welcome to the 7th article in the series covering Operational Risk Management (ORM) in the mining industry. Earlier articles attempted to set a foundation of terms and concepts to help understand the ORM journey, as well as to help a site identify its current position on the journey. Figure 1: The operational risk management journey [...]
According to ISO 31010 “Risk identification is the process of finding, recognizing and recording risks.” Risk (or hazard) identification is a structured process to identify and assess the risks we are dealing with on a day-to-day operation. We assess the risks they pose to people, the environment, assets or reputation. Once these risks have been [...]
It was pleasantly crowded at the CGE booth during the NVVK (Dutch Society for Safety Science) Congress 2019 at Hotel Papendal in Arnhem. The NVVK congress is the largest (Dutch) congress in this field of expertise in the Netherlands. The conference was very well attended by members of the society, the program filled with interesting [...]
Hello and welcome to the 2nd blog in this blog series of the complete guide through the risk management standard using the CGE software portfolio. This week’s blog will be a short one and is focused on the first step of the ISO 31000 – Scope, Context and Criteria. It should be noted here, that [...]
Some organizations want to manage risk because they want to create safe working conditions for their employees or because they want to be good for the environment. Other organizations manage risk because accidents are often more expensive than being proactively safe or simply because they want to comply with certain regulations or standards and perhaps [...]
Guest blog by David Hatch from Process Safety Integrity The outputs from PHA/HAZOP studies are stale, static and forgettable. The passage of time quickly erodes the memories of those who contributed, and those who did not attend but have to manage the risks are unlikely to correctly & consistently interpret the findings from masses of [...]
