How to keep your people safe and ensure business continuity?

The bowtie below is one example of how infection with COVID-19 and further spreading can occur and develop. This bowtie’s scope is to look at it from the angle of a business. The “hazardous activity” (yellow and black box) is operating in an environment where the virus is present, which is potentially most of the world at the moment. The central node below it, the top event, describes the point in time we lose control over the hazard. In this bowtie, an employee getting infected would be that point. The left side of the diagram shows the threats (or causes) in blue boxes. They describe how the infection can occur. The red boxes on the right visualize the potential unwanted outcomes (consequences) from having a top event. Safety measures, also called barriers, are situated on the scenario lines. They have a specific preventive, controlling or mitigating effect on the scenario line they sit on. We have opted to combine barriers from the World Health Organization (WHO) with some of the best practices we have heard companies implement around us.