BowtieXP
Barrier Based Risk Assessment
What is BowTieXP?
BowTieXP is the most used risk assessment software that is based on the bowtie method. It enables you to easily create bowtie diagrams to assess risk. 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.
A bowtie diagram visualizes the risk you are dealing with in one understandable picture. The diagram is shaped like a bowtie, creating a clear differentiation between the proactive and reactive side of risk management. In BowTieXP, the bowtie diagram provides you with an overview of multiple plausible incident scenarios and shows what barriers you have in place to control these scenarios. BowTieXP software is developed with the end-user in mind, making it one of the most user-friendly risk assessment tools. It is easy to create a diagram in BowTieXP, but the software also enables you to maintain the diagram so it will always represent the current status of your safety barriers.
Visualise your risk
Enable thorough and efficient risk assessments by drawing bowtie diagrams with BowTieXP. Create an easy to understand visual risk picture that can be understood at all levels of the organization. Notice the strengths and weaknesses in your risk control framework at a single glance, so you can optimize the allocation of resources.
Manage your safety barriers
Identify, analyze and manage your safety barriers in BowTieXP. Fully understand your barriers and their individual components, and create a holistic representation of your Safety Management System (SMS) by linking SMS activities to barriers. Close the continuous improvement cycle to gain complete insight and ensure barrier performance.
Make risk based decisions
A picture paints a thousand words. Consider the full context and bring together all your risk related data in one easy to understand picture, to take risk based decisions.
BowTieXP feature overview
- Easy to read & communicate
- User-friendly diagrams
- Filters & display profiles
- Linking management systems
- Custom terms & taxonomies
- Reporting
Analyze and assess
Once you have built a bowtie diagram, you can analyze and assess the safety barriers that you’ve implemented. Various categories can be linked to these barriers to identify amongst others the effectiveness, type or accountability of each barrier. Analyze the barrier effectiveness to get instant visual insight into the strength of your barriers. In BowTieXP barrier effectiveness is often shown with a traffic light color code, but this is customizable to your needs.
Analyzing barrier types will help you to increase the robustness of the organization and decrease the likelihood of common mode failure.
Accountability can be linked to barriers via customizable job titles. This helps to get insight into which people are responsible for the performance of safety barriers. It makes transparent what everybody is supposed to do to operate safely and increases ownership of barrier performance.
BOWTIEXP Standard
✔ Bowtie diagram building tool
✔ Automatically create risk matrices
✔ Assign custom attributes to bowtie diagrams
BOWTIEXP Complete
✔ All BowTieXP Standard features
✔ Check your barriers with audits
✔ Quantify your data
✔ BowTieXP Enterprise access
Use BowTieXP to:
Utilize a proven method
- BowTieXP is based on the bowtie method that has been adopted worldwide by many different industries. The method is intuitively simple, structures your thinking and helps communicate risk to all layers of the organization.
Easily build bowtie diagrams
- Anyone can easily install BowTieXP and get started with building bowties in minutes. Ensure diagram consistency by using the efficient group editing feature and avoid
repeat work by importing and exporting existing data.
Customize to company requirements
- Speak your industry’s language and meet its standards by customizing BowTieXP terminology and building your own templates. Multi-language support enables global deployment of BowTieXP.
Incorporate your management systems
- Root your SMS in bowtie risk analysis and add related activities to make sure that your barriers will perform as required. Visualize standards and procedures by linking them to the bowtie diagram.
Communicate to all levels
- Save time and communicate more effectively by using the automatically generated reports. Tailor bowtie diagrams to your audience by using and combining different filters. Use display profiles to quickly show or hide additional information on your bowtie diagram for a clean risk picture.
Take the next step
- Strengthen your risk management approach. Whether the goal is to learn from incidents, audit barrier performance, quantify bowties or manage bowties across the world, BowTieXP seamlessly integrates with all Bowtie Suite products.
