In our last blog, we discussed how the risk identification phase looks like according to ISO 31000. One thing we noted is “The bowtie is not a specialized hazard identification method” which is true, but we do offer a risk or hazard identification tool in our BowTieServer tool. How to identify risk in BowTieServer The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 latest version of IncidentXP & BowtieXP, software release 9.2, allows a new way of showing incident data on a bowtie diagram. We think that the bowtie is a communicative tool and as such, we should add as many features as possible that can help you communicate and visualize information. This blog post offers a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Many companies want to extend the BowTieXP functionality to integrate with their (computerized) Maintenance Management System, so they can display the (real-time) availability of their hardware barriers. Technical barriers usually consist of systems that are made up of multiple parts. By displaying the online/offline status of hardware parts and (sub)systems, decisions can be made in [...]
Bowties are great for communicating risks by visualizing everything in one simple diagram. Sometimes, however, an operation is so big and complex that, if we were to put the entire operation in one bowtie diagram, we’d lose its strength: the ability to provide a clear overview. In this case, we’d cautiously advise to start [...]
We often see that organizations can be quite adept at performing the first steps in building a better safety culture using BowTieXP software. They start with identifying and defining their barriers and they even find the employees who are accountable for the barrier. These are some great and very necessary first steps to construct a [...]
