Barriers
Learn about barriers in the safety measures or controls.
Barrier type
One of the lesser used functionalities in BowTieXP are Barrier types.
Barrier families
Many organizations struggle with the level of detail when defining barriers.
Barrier effectiveness
Barrier effectiveness is a way to assess how well a barrier performs.
Barrier based auditing
Barriers that are defined in the Safety Management Systems are the means to manage safety.
The Bowtie Methodology
The history of bowtie
Learn more about the history of bowtie methodology.
The bowtie method
A ‘bowtie’ is a diagram that visualizes the risk you are dealing with in just one picture.
Chaining bowties
A Bowtie diagram analyses a specific section of a longer causal chain.
Human error in bowtie
How human factors & human error can be taken into account in the bowtie method.
Escalation Factors
Escalation Factors are a valuable aspect of Bowtie Risk Assessments.
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Risk Assessment Techniques
3 Process Safety questions
Process Safety is about answering 3 simple questions...
Risk assessment
Understand what a risk assessment is and how it can be conducted.
HAZOP
HAZOP (Hazard & Operability) methodology.
HAZID
HAZID stand for Hazard Identification.
Risk matrix
A risk matrix is probably one of the most widespread tools for risk evaluation.
Incident Investigation and Analysis
Incident analysis methods
An incident is an unplanned event or chain of events that results in losses.
Tripod Beta
The tripod method is a way of conducting incident analysis.
TOP-SET
TOP-SET® is an incident investigation methodology that follows all known best practices in this field.