A bowtie is an excellent tool for visualising process safety risks, and for building shared understanding across both senior leadership and front-line operations staff. Catherine is an experienced bowtie facilitator across both oil and gas and mining and metals, working at site level as well as designing and implementing bowtie development programs for consistent management of high-consequence risks across whole mining and metals businesses.
To align with critical control management, Catherine has also used safety bowties as a key element in presenting major hazards to regulators as part of safety case development — where a bowtie's clarity does real work in helping a regulator understand a hazard scenario and its controls.
Catherine is genuinely passionate about bowties being readable and usable — tools that add real value to an organisation, not diagrams that are technically complete but sit unused on a shared drive.
“If your bowties have become something people build once and never look at again, that's usually fixable — let's talk about what's getting in the way.”Read more on our approach to bowties →Enquire about this service →