Bowtie Risk Management Course

The training is a 3-days course focusing on fundamental of assessing risk using bowtie method. Day 1 delivers a thorough overview on the basic understanding of hazard, risk and impact. It will cover on the knowledge of risk and root causes from previous industrial accidents and basic knowledge of accident prevention theory. 

Day 2 and Day 3 aims to provide participants with a sound understanding of fundamental concepts of Bowtie including studying the eight (8) elements of Bowtie Risk Management. Besides that, this topic will cover on how it is used in managing risk by incorporating the elements in HSE-MS and PSM. It will details elaborate how Bowtie Risk Analysis technique utilizing the Barrier Based Management technique.

This program will also cover numbers of exercised related to maintenance and operation concepts on Prevention and Recovery measures during the incidents. The hands-on session will be included in order to familiarize participants on how to facilitate the Bowtie Risk Assessment team in the future.

BOWTIE is one of the most recent risk assessment method identified, with concepts on barrier-based management and has been used in industries mostly in developed country such as Defense industry, the French Government, UK Health , Safety and Environment Executive, an Australia State Regulator, the Land Transport Safety Authority of New Zealand, petroleum industry international associations and international standards.

Target Group

Process Engineers, Operation Engineers, Maintenance and Reliability Engineers, Safety and Risk Engineers, Maintenance and Operation Managers, and Safety Practitioner

Targeted industry/industries

Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Power Plant, Co-Generation Plant, Manufacturing, Construction and all industries that requires to adhere to safety and risk management requirement as per OSHA.

Course objective

The objective of this course will provide basic understanding of risk management, and comprehensive review of the methodology of bowtie in risk management that is applicable to every industry. Participant will be provided hands-on exercises related to industrial hazards and risk control in order to achieve the familiarization and in-depth understanding on how Bowtie Risk Management differs from the other risk assessment tools.

At the end of the course, the delegates will be able to:

• Define Risk Management concept
• Define Barrier Based Management concept
• Understand Bowtie method in risk assessment
• Understand elements such as hazard, events, threats and barriers in Bowtie methods and its purpose
• Understanding type of barriers in Bowtie methods and in managing risk
• Apply learnings to develop Bowtie Risk Assessment objectives to meet stakeholder requirements and optimise the control of hazards and threats
• Reflection on how to conduct root causes of incidents using Bowtie risk method

Training methodology

• Lecture
• Classroom discussions
• Short video presentation
• Case study

Introducing to Risk Management

• Definition: Risk and Hazard
• Risk Management process
• Risk Assessment Matrix
• Health, Safety and Environment Management System

Common Risk Management Tool

• HIRARC
• HAZOP
• Event Tree
• Fault Tree
• FMEA
• Bowtie Method

The Bowtie Method

• Swiss Cheese Diagram & Loss Causation
• Introduction to Bowtie Diagram
• Understanding Elements in Bowtie Risk Management

Barrier in Bowtie Diagram

• Barrier in Based Management
• Type of barriers
• Prevention and Mitigation barriers in Bowtie
• Effective barriers guide
• Barriers in Bowtie: Adapting Risk Management

 
Barrier Integrity

• Effective Control
• Safety Critical Elements
• Safety Critical Tasks
• Safety Critical Roles
• Safety Critical Documents

Hazardous Activities vs Critical Activities

• Hazardous Activities
• Critical Activities
• Example and exercise on hazardous and critical activities

Hands-On Exercise

• Constructing Critical Activity Catalogue & Remedial Action Plan
• Example: Bowtie Exercise

 
Effectiveness vs ALARP

• Risk Control Hierarchy
• Assess control effectiveness
• Identification of weakest area
• ALARP: Bowtie Approach

Summary on Bowtie Risk Management

• Linkage of HSE-MS in Bowtie Risk Management
• Benefits of Bowtie
• Real Application of Bowtie Risk Management in Industries