“Having the bowties, we can now actually say which controls are critical and focus on those”

CAA took their risk assessment to the next level with BowTieXP

Discover common failures

Discover common failures and strengthen your Safety Management System (SMS).

Develop and monitor SOP

Develop and monitor Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) as part of your SMS.

Learn from incidents

Learn from incidents and ‘near misses’ and improve risk-based decision making.

Global COVID-19 response initiative for the Aviation industry

Together with several aviation experts, CGE is freely offering access to anybody interested in the aviation sector to an online Bowtie risk analysis and management platform. Click here for more information or request access via the button below.

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Some of our aviation clients

Barrier based risk management in aviation

What are the hazards in your organization and what do you have in place to manage these hazards and their accompanying risks? You may have many controls and preventative barriers implemented in your operation to prevent incidents, but how can incidents still happen when you have all those controls? Learning from incidents is a reactive way to determine the strengths and weaknesses of your barriers.

Using the bowtie methodology is a way of gaining more insight in the causality of seemingly independent events and conditions and developing a systematic way of assuring control over hazards.

Already more than 180 aviation clients have implemented our software as part of their Safety Management System. Amongst them are:

  • airport-operators
  • air traffic controllers
  • airline-operators (flight- and maintenance operations)
  • regulators and authorities

Case studies

Learn how other clients used our software products to improve safety across the company.

  • CAA Significant Seven
  • CHC Helicopter - BowTieXP implementation

Projects that benefit the industry

Some of our clients and partners took our BowTieXP software to the next level and initiated projects to benefit the entire industry.

Significant Seven

The Civil Aviation Authority

SIGNIFICANT SEVEN

The CAA, UK’s specialist aviation regulator is developing BowTie models covering each of the CAA’s ‘Significant Seven’ safety issues.

Working closely together with the industry, the shared goal is a balanced risk overview for the whole aviation system. Find out more on their website.

CARM

The Aloft Group

CARM

Common Aviation Risk Models (CARM) involves the joint development and sharing of bowtie risk models by industry experts. Models cover the key hazards associated with all aspects of aviation operations. CARM becomes the place where risk understanding can be captured and incorporated continuously.

This project is using CGE’s BowTieServer solution.

SMS Training

ICAO

Safety Management Training Program

BowTieXP has been included in the ICAO Safety Management Training Program. This course provides state regulatory and administrative personnel with the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude to implement, administer or participate in SMS operations. Learn more on their website.

BowTie Complete

Across Safety Development

BowTie Complete

BowTie Complete is specifically used by small to medium sized operations that want to benefit from using bowtie but don’t have the time, resources or budget to develop everything from scratch.

It’s a standalone or cloud based solution that provides a set of pre-populated bowties tailored to specific sectors of the aviation industry including fixed-wing operations and airports.

“BowTieXP is unique in its ability to visualize complex risks in a way that is understandable, yet also allows for detailed risk based improvement plans.”

CHC Helicopter, Canada
“I found the bowtie software very helpful and intuitive to use. Having a visual picture makes it so much easier to convey a safety issue and the risk that it poses.”
Civil Aviation Authority, United Kingdom

Events in the aviation industry

Looking for an event or training designed for the aviation industry? Check out one of our events below or the complete Event Calender.

Industry bowties

Some examples of barrier based bowtie diagrams in the aviation industry:

BowTieXP: fire during flight (.jpg)

BowTieXP: take off during runway incursion (.jpg)

BSCAT: runway incursion (.jpg)

BSCAT: take off from taxi lane (.jpg)

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