How should you show incident data on your bowtie risk assessment? If done the right way, it will give you great insights into the quality of your safety management system as well as the quality of your risk assessment. However, if done the wrong way you miss out on the power of bowtie which will [...]
With the last Partner Train the Trainer session of 2018 behind us, the CGE Partner Management team is already looking forward to 2019. As more and more companies are working with the bowtie method to manage risk, the need for local support from CGE’s value-added consultancy partners is increasing. To meet these needs, we have [...]
Guest blog by Koos Meijer from KM Human Factors Engineering Why do you lose the ability to fully concentrate after a few nights of poor sleep? Or why does a sleep debt of only two hours increase the risk to get involved in a car accident by 200%? Think about it, you spend almost one-third [...]
This blog introduces you to three BowTieXP functionalities to enhance your bowtie analysis. The reason for this post is that sometimes we see people make bowties for a one-time analysis. Too bad, because you can do much more with it and use bowties to truly manage your barriers. Take your bowtie to the level and [...]
On the 23rd and 24th of October, CGE partners Slice and IQR-Solutions provided Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) with a BowTieXP Master Class. HMC is one of the most developed medical organizations not only in the middle east but also worldwide. It provides hospital care services for more than 90% of Qatar’s population and has around [...]
Guest blog by Mark Townend from Baines Simmons Four weeks ago I was privileged to be offered the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion at the CGE Risk “Making Risk Understandable” Networking Event. The discussion topic was one that was particularly close to my heart: “Bridging the gap between management and workforce is [...]
Over the last thirty years, bowties have been widely adopted in almost all high hazard industries. In essence, the method is still the same as when Shell first facilitated extensive research and developed an initial set of rules and guidelines in the early nineties. However, the applications of the bowtie method and barrier management in [...]
Gathering risk scenarios & incident information, and updating them can be an intense job, especially if the available data is scattered over multiple files and multiple formats. Often clients have the need to merge parts of data from different sources and tend to ask for help to do this in a decent manner. Luckily the [...]
This week, the 'International Airport Review' issued an article on 'CGE reveal how incident data can prevent future threats'. In this interview, Emma Verschoor, Product Manager at CGE Risk Management Solutions takes you through CGE's protocols for learning from incidents and how to actively monitor how relevant barriers can be improved. Find the full interview [...]
Welcome to article 5 of 17. Thanks to those who have provided feedback. Article 3 and 4 of the series briefly presented a ‘back to basics’ discussion about terminology and the focus on controls, also called barriers. Potential changes were reviewed to help develop a good control focus considering conversations and mindsets, and to a [...]
