Barrier based risk management and bowties
The bowtie methodology is a barrier-based technique that enables organizations to effectively manage risks. This barrier-based risk management method is a qualitative methodology that takes parentage from Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA). The complexity of understanding these methods was greatly scaled down by the introduction of the Swiss Cheese metaphor by James Reason. The Swiss Cheese Model, along with the FTA and ETA, forms an important background for the bowtie method. Thus, barrier-based risk models, and in particular BowTie diagrams, are increasingly used to assess and evaluate key risks that can influence critical business processes like new process introduction, management of change, and so on in terms of reliability, efficiency, safety, quality, or reputation.
Thus, the barrier-based approach for risk management reinforces the process of identifying risks, implementing barriers to contain risks, monitoring barrier performance through the auditing process, and determining the causes for failures during the investigation process, enabling a cycle of continuous improvement. The organizational aspects address issues such as common organizational causes, degrading of multiple barriers simultaneously, which is not addressed in traditional risk management. Hence, this approach is more promising for sustainable and improved organizational performance.
Who should attend this course
- HSE and risk professionals
- Key personnel involved in developing,implementing, maintaining, using HSE Management system
- Line, Project Managers
- Key personnel involved in incident investigation
- Line managers who need more insight in business process improvements
- Senior Management team members
Course contents
- Introduction to risk management & bowtie methodology
- Understanding the bowtie methodology
- Elements of a bowtie
- Building bowties – Individual & group exercises
- Strengthening bowties with Management systems
- Classification of critical barriers
- Data filtering in bowties
- Report generation
- LOPA in BowTieXP
- Optimising risks to reach ALARP status
- Participants shall be provided with fully functional BowTieXP software licences valid for 15 days from the date of the training workshop.
About the facilitator
Mr. Anantha Prasad is a qualified safety professional having about 4 decades of global experience in technology and EHS domains. He is an Enablon B.V certified practitioner on barrier based Risk Management using BowTieXP.
For registration contact: info@sudakshaconsulting.com
