What Is A Bowtie?: Structure Your Thinking

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Structure your thinking

BowTie workshops often uncover issues that were not


WHAT IS A BOWTIE? identified by other methods. The highly visual and interactive
A BowTie is a diagram that visualises the risk you nature of BowTie building ensures maximum involvement
are dealing with in just one, easy to understand from all levels of the organisation.
picture. The diagram is shaped like a bow-tie,
Make risk based decisions
creating a clear differentiation between proactive
Analyse and distill weak points in how you manage risk and
and reactive risk management. The power of a
create risk based improvement plans. Assess whether risk is
BowTie is that it shows you a summary of
sufficiently controlled.
scenarios in a single picture. In short, it provides
a simple, visual explanation of risk that would be Communicate risk
much more difficult to explain otherwise. BowTieXP diagrams have been designed from the ground up
to be easily communicable and provide you with many
options to tailor the diagram for your audience.

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Features
User friendly interactive diagram
BowTieXP features a highly interactive diagram that is
incredibly user friendly. Get started building BowTies in
minutes.

Powerful filters
Less is more when it comes to risk communication. BowTieXP
lets you filter on many criteria, like job titles or barrier
criticality. Just a few clicks and your tailored PowerPoint
presentation is ready.

Visual Safety Management Systems


You can build a Safety Management System that is rooted in
a Bowtie risk analysis. Each activity can be traced back to the
reasons for doing it.

Link Documentation
Make your standards and procedures visual and accessible by
linking them to the BowTie.

Group editing
Easily edit multiple common elements at the same time with
group edit and ensure consistency in your BowTie.

Quality Checks
Is your risk assessment ready? The quality checks help you to
find out, providing you with a list of best practices &
completeness checks.

Search
Search through multiple risk assessments, and find exactly
what you need.
Compare BowTies
All elements in BowTieXP can be compared to show you
differences in a visual overview. From any list to complete
BowTies.

Company templates
It’s important to use existing standards from the
organisation. Any label in the software can be changed to suit
your own terminology, as well as the risk matrices and
others.

Import from Excel into a BowTie library


Historical information in Excel sheets can be easily imported.
No tedious copy-pasting necessary.
Powerful reports
BowTieXP has a suite of powerful standard reports to export
the information in any way you want.

Tel: +31 (0) 88 100 1350


E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.cgerisk.com

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