Overview
Bowties provide a visual representation of potential hazards, their causes, and the safeguards in place to mitigate them.
By using bowties, companies can enhance their understanding of process safety, improve decision-making, and implement targeted measures to prevent incidents and protect personnel, assets, and the environment.
Live Bowties is a module directly connected to LivePHA Data which allows organizations to quickly visualize how a safeguard relates to its related potential consequences based on SME lead PHA Data. Simply update from LivePHA, and your bowties will be in synch
Accessing Live Bowties
Activating the features
Live Bowties features must be activated by your Risk Alive representative. These features can be activated for a single report to pilot its use in your organization, or we can turn these feature on for all reports. Just chat with us and we'll get you going!
Availability on specific reports
Live Bowties activation status, can be found by accessing "Live PHA Analytics" and selecting the Live Bowties tab.
Select "Review", highlighted below, to then see the projects which have this module activated.
Selecting a Bowtie for Visualization
In order to start your Live Bowties process, you must first find the Bowtie you are interested in.
You can Search and Filter for your Bowtie of interest using description keywords for the Bowtie, or by filtering for consequence category, severity and risk ranking.
Once you have identified your Bowtie of interest, simply click on its description to be taken to that Bowtie's simulation.
Live Bowties Visual
Once a Bowtie is selected, the visual for Live Bowties will now be shown. All items highlighted below are selectable for additional information.
As per the visual below:
On the left, in blue, are all Causes in which the Bowtie selected is related to. You can hover over a Cause to see its full description. The Residual Cause Criticality of a Cause is shown below the Cause description.
In between the Causes and the Risk Theme, in green, are all preventative safeguards found on the scenarios related to the Bowtie selected. Only safeguards which have at least 1 occurrence of greater than 0 credit are shown. You can hover over a Safeguard to see its full description.
In between the Risk Theme and the Consequences, in orange, are all mitigative safeguards found on the scenarios related to the Bowtie selected. Only safeguards which have at least 1 occurrence of greater than 0 credit are shown. You can hover over a Safeguard to see its full description.
In the centre, in Pink, is the Risk Theme or Center. This is a static icon used to seperate preventative and mitigative safeguards, and relates to the Bowtie Center description shown at the top.
On the right, in purple, are all Consequences related to the Bowtie selected. Consequences are grouped by Consequence Category (e.g. Health and Safety) and Severity (e.g. Very High). These groups show the number of scenarios within each pair and will change as simulations are performed.
In the top right, in black, is a "View All Scenarios" link, which when selected will open a new tab and take a user to the LivePHA Project and filter for all scenarios containing the Bowtie selected.
In the bottom right, in grey, is a "View Documents" link, which when selected will open a new tab and take a user to the supporting documents associated with the LivePHA Project.
You can select any of the highlighted boxes within the Live Bowties visual to see additional information. For example, in the Cause Drawer, you can see the full description of the cause, and the description of related consequences as well as Residual Risk Ranking.
Interested in learning more? Reach out to us through the in-app chat and we'll be happy to help!