We are working on a new feature for BowTieServer: the barrier performance review module. This is a new feature for our BowTieServer clients that need to review not just the bowtie as a whole, but also each independent barrier and track its evolution through the years. Check out this 2-minute vlog to learn more and [...]
As humans, we’ve come a long way. We went from being hunters/gatherers into becoming settlers, expanding communities into villages and thereafter cities. We innovated, evolved. For the past few centuries, the developments have made significant, technically driven leaps, better described as revolutions rather than gradual growth. In the late 18th century the industrial revolution (Industry [...]
Bowtie training is available in many forms and now also through gamification. One of our partners, Euricério Filho from QSMS-PRO TREINAMENTOS, is launching a new program called: Exodus The Bowtie Experience. This program allows you to learn all about the bowtie method and tool, through gamification. Exodus The Bowtie Experience Exodus is an eight-hour immersive [...]
Guest blog by Capt. Claudio Cacares Peters from Continuous Safety When your operations are not aligned with a clear safety policy; the ROI and your reputation will probably soon be eroded and lives are at risk as well. That is what is happening right now to one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers, lives were lost [...]
In October, partner TECSA S.r.l. did a presentation on "Managing Fire Risk and Fire Safety of Assets using Bowtie: A ISO 31000 Coherent and Risk-based Framework", at the SFPE 19 Annual Conference in Phoenix Arizona. Missed the presentation? Get the summary here.
One year ago the domestic flight Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea thirteen minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people aboard. The final investigation report was published on the 25th of October 2019. The media were keen on having their most pressing question answered: Was it the aircraft, was it the airline [...]
Guest blog by Anthony Venetz from Across Safety Development Love them or hate them, drones are now a part of the aviation environment. They represent a huge spectrum of equipment types, use cases and operators, and somehow they all need to be managed so as to ensure the safety of manned aviation and people on [...]
In the previous ISO 31000 blog, we saw the inherent difficulties in incident analysis and learning from incidents. In this software blog, we focus on how IncidentXP helps tackle these difficulties. IncidentXP guides you through the process of incident investigation. 7 steps Notably, IncidentXP supports you in the following 7 steps: Fact-finding Timeline Event chaining [...]
Announcement The 5th edition… First preparations have started, provisional dates are in our calendar, September 24-25, 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Please save the date for our biennial Barrier Based Risk Management Network Event 2020. Call for papers Do you have an interesting story to tell? Do you want to share how you deal with risks? [...]
In the previous ISO 31000 blogs, a plan has been drawn up and communicated clearly with the help of bowties. The next question then becomes, how do we know our plan is working as we had imagined? Is our paper world close to the reality of the real world? In ISO 31000’s framework, we Monitor [...]
