Turn Bowtie Outputs into Real Risk Reduction

This webinar picks up where a bowtie analysis workshop leaves off, tackling the critical question: what do you actually do with your bowties once they’re built?

Presented by Belinda Beale, Senior Risk Consultant at R4Risk, the session provides a practical framework for turning bowtie outputs into meaningful and sustained risk reduction outcomes.

The webinar begins with a brief refresher on bowtie foundations, introducing bowtie analysis as a visual tool linking causes, consequences and controls around a top event. A well-constructed bowtie is accurate, logical and uncluttered – producing valuable outputs such as relative frequency data, control inventories and risk ratings.

However, the central message is clear: the real value of a bowtie lies not in the workshop itself, but in what happens afterwards.

To address this, the session is structured around four key chapters:

• Risk Reduction Actions – identifying and implementing targeted measures to reduce risk
• Control Management – defining ownership and maintaining integrity of controls
• Performance Monitoring – tracking effectiveness and identifying degradation over time
• Communication – embedding bowtie insights into site understanding and decision making.

  Together, these elements form a practical roadmap for embedding bowtie analysis into day-to-day operations.