Bowtie Risk Assessment & Critical Barrier Management

This course teaches the Bowtie method for visualizing major accident scenarios, linking threats, top events and consequences to the preventive and mitigating barriers, and managing the critical barriers that keep risks under control.

• Understand Bowtie methodology.
• Build Bowtie diagrams for major hazards.
• Identify preventive and mitigating barriers.
• Assess barrier effectiveness and degradation.
• Manage and monitor critical barriers.

• Introduction to Bowtie analysis.
• Hazards, top events, threats and consequences.
• Preventive and recovery barriers.
• Escalation factors and controls.
• Barrier criticality and performance standards.
• Barrier management and assurance.
• Practical Bowtie workshop.

• Process safety and risk engineers.
• HSE managers.
• Operations and asset integrity managers.
• Technical authorities.

Participants will receive an international certificate upon successful completion of the course.