To serve risk experts all over the world, www.bowtiexp.com was already available in English, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese and Italian, and recently, the French language was added to this repertoire. Making risk understandable by using one common language One of the reasons why BowTieXP was developed is the importance of a common language to communicate risk [...]
Since this blog is about saving you time, let’s not waste any more words than necessary and let’s jump right into it: 1 - Drag multiple tabs in the same window Did you know that you can drag multiple tabs in the same window? Rather than clicking back and forth between, for example, [...]
Today we celebrate 10 years of fruitful partnership together with Claudio Cacares from Continous Safety. He was there right from the start, accompanied us on our journey while assisting and supporting organizations in the aviation industry to make risk understandable with the aid of the bowtie method and BowTieXP risk analysis tool. Thanks to Claudio, [...]
Many bowtie creators are struggling to find out what makes a barrier effective. The barriers are mapped in a bowtie, but how are they performing in the real world? Barrier effectiveness is often defined based on expert judgment and historical experiences. In this blog, we provide other insights into barrier effectiveness by describing 3 pillars [...]
Dear reader, let us ask you this: Have you ever finished a workshop within the allocated time? If your answer is yes, what are you still doing here? You have already mastered workshop time management. Congratulations, now go put that saved time to use elsewhere! If your answer was no, it’s likely because the workshop [...]
Are you still right-clicking your mouse to add and remove most things in BowTieXP? Get ready to live in the fast lane and start using these 4 advanced hotkeys in BowTieXP! For maximum learning, please open your instance of the software next to this blog and click alongside the tips and tricks. 1 - Navigating [...]
In December, we attended the International Airport Review’s IT and Security event at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. This event was all about aviation security and technology and how one can inform the other. We were there to represent CGE’s software products, but also to gain more knowledge about airport security. At CGE we do not call [...]
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 [...]
