Bowtie Analysis

As EHS professionals, it’s our job to anticipate and manage all potential workplace EHS risks in order to ensure compliance, protect workers and promote the health of the organization. Bowtie Analysis allows us to document and prioritize the full spectrum of workplace EHS risks, visualize the relationships between the causes and impacts of those risks, and develop and monitor the controls necessary to manage them. Benefits of applying Bowtie Analysis include:

• Enhance visualization of risks and associated controls
• Improve communication of risk and risk management activities to stakeholders
• Centralize planning and coordination of risk management activities
• Perform and document more comprehensive root cause analyses
• Monitor effectiveness of risk controls and risk management activities

Part of the Operational Risk solution, VelocityEHS Bowtie Analysis is a powerful and versatile software system that allows users to quickly and easily create, modify and distribute risk bowties across your entire enterprise. Users can build and manage risk bowties within our flexible and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) that makes it easy to create, rearrange and update bowties to reflect your changing organizational risks. Bowtie data can then be instantly analyzed and summarized through a variety of built-in reports. Our customers consistently report that using VelocityEHS Bowtie Analysis has helped them achieve dramatic improvements to workplace productivity, knowledge sharing and risk management program performance.