It was pleasantly crowded at the CGE booth during the NVVK (Dutch Association 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 association, 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 [...]
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, [...]
Guest blog by Prof. Coen van Gulijk from University of Huddersfield How to extract in-depth learning from 200,000 reports per year? Big data text analysis for BowTies. Dealing with vast numbers of text-based safety records One of the challenges for safety managers is dealing with vast amounts of data. Especially when it comes to near-miss reporting [...]
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 [...]
