Figure 3: ERM’s Golden Rules for Bowties Advantages of Bowties in Process Safety Management There are numerous advantages to using bowties as a tool for effective process safety management. These are discussed below Effective communication: The simple representation of the safety processes makes them ideal to use in Safety Cases and Reports. The popularity of bowties is due to their ability to simply and effectively communicate how risks associated with Major Accident Hazards are managed on a particular facility or during a particular operation. This is an approach that has gained traction with regulators such as the UK HSE (Health and Safety Executive, and many safety cases and COMAH cases are now developed with bowties at their core. ALARP reviews: They are an effective and visual way of representing the risk management process and provide a strong starting point for ALARP reviews.
