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What Qualifies as a Control in Process Safety?

August 6, 2025

Across many types of safety assessment activities, we are invited to consider how a hazard scenario would play out in the absence of controls. The..

Common Bowtie Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

January 13, 2022

Why Many Bowties Fail to Deliver Real Risk Reduction Bowties provide a graphical representation of an incident pathway connecting the causes of..

A Bowtie for Endurance Swimming

June 13, 2020

In the process safety world, the development of bowties are part of the toolkit we have at our disposal to communicate how risks around a specific..

Minimising Risk at Operating Plants

May 23, 2020

As the understanding of process safety has increased over the last few decades, countries' health and safety legislation has also been updated. There..