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 [...]
The publication of the CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety) book ‘Bow Ties in Risk Management: A Concept Book for Process Safety’, is a nice opportunity to ask CGE’s program director about his thoughts on the book. CGE has been at the forefront of bowtie software since 2004, active as market leader in barrier-based risk [...]
More and more people in South America are becoming familiar with the bowtie method. Together with our partners, we have been investing in the region by participating in conferences and organizing workshops, to demonstrate how the barrier based bowtie methodology can help organizations improve their risk management practices. To support our partners and customers in this [...]
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 [...]
The holes in James Reason’s Swiss cheese model can be represented through escalation factors in the bowtie method. Although, theoretically, that may be true. Practically, it might be of more added value if they are considered to be activities that are part of your safety management system. This blog will show you how to make [...]
Guest blog by Simon Pollard from Evolution Compliance and Management Solutions Ltd. Whilst on a rare family hike in the Dales, an uncle I’d not seen for some time asked me what it was I was doing for a living as he’d heard I’d left what he perceived to be a secure employee role to pursue [...]
