Bowtie Risk Management
Master Bowtie analysis to visualise, manage, and communicate major hazards, assess barriers, and support ALARP demonstration and assurance.
Bowtie Analysis
Bowtie analysis provides a visually intuitive, structured approach to understanding how hazards can lead to major accident events and how barriers prevent or mitigate these outcomes. By mapping threats, consequences, and barriers, bowtie diagrams foster engagement, ownership, and accountability at all organisational levels. Our expertise in bowtie analysis helps organisations strengthen barrier management, demonstrate ALARP, and proactively manage operational risk.
Service information
- Design, review, and optimise bowtie diagrams to clearly link hazards, threats, barriers, and consequences
- Facilitate interactive bowtie workshops to promote engagement, understanding, and ownership
- Identify critical safety and environmental barriers (i.e. SECEs), providing input to performance standards and competency requirements
- Integrate bowtie analysis with LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) and ALARP demonstrations to reinforce safety justifications
- Apply bowtie-based approaches to support audits, inspections, incident investigations, and lessons-learned programmes
- Use bowtie visualisation to support real-time barrier management, assurance processes, and performance monitoring
- Prepare clear, communicable outputs — including bowtie visuals, barrier summaries and booklets — for operational and leadership teams
- Provide tailored training on bowtie analysis principles
