Guest blog by David Hatch from Process Safety Integrity As BowtieXP users become more proficient in model development (often guided by the CCPS/EI concept book which includes significant contributions from CGE) they wish to exploit enhanced functionality to provide more accurate risk assessments to inform their decision making. Adding value to qualitative risk assessment (matrices) [...]
Two ways to evaluate your risk How do you evaluate risk? In this blog, we describe two functionalities that will help you to evaluate your risks and to see the strengths and weaknesses of your processes. The previous blog describes different approaches to evaluate risk, namely the qualitative way and quantitative way. In this part [...]
In the past few years, CGE and its partners have organized workshops in Brazil to demonstrate how the bowtie methodology can help organizations improve their risk management. Currently, more and more people in this region are interested in applying the bowtie method, to manage their organizational risks. To further support current bowtie activity in Brazil, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
